SYMBOLISM OF CELEBRATION IN PINTER’S BIRTHDAY PARTY, PARTY TIME, COUNTERBLAST AND CELEBRATION
Keywords:
Pinter, celebration, mock ritual, bombing, crimeAbstract
The paper brings together Harold Pinter’s ‘celebration’ plays The Birthday Party, Party Time, and Celebration, and his political activism directed against the mock celebratory actions by NATO military alliance dramatized in his TV documentary Counterblast and expressed in his numerous speeches and addresses.
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Batty, Mark, (2005) About Pinter: the Playwright & the Work, Faber and Faber, London.
Billington, Michael, «Celebrating Pinter», in Pinter at 70, A Casebook, Routledge, New York and London, 2001.
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Carl Savich, “belgrade 41: Hitler’s Attck”, Serbianna, August 31, 2006.
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Bloom, Harold, Shakespeare, The Invention of the Human, Riverhead Books, New York, 1998.
Campbell, Joseph, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Abacus, London, 1975 (Copyright 1949).
Chomsky, Noam, The New Military Humanism, Lessons from Kosovo, Common Courage Press, Monroe, ME, 1999.
Frazer, Sir James, The Golden Bough, A study in magic and religion, Wordsworth Reference, England, 1993.
Pinter, Harold, Celebration & The Room, Faber And Faber, London, 2000.
Pinter, Harold, Counterblast, BBC Community Programme Unit, 1999.
Pinter, Harold, Party Time, Faber And Faber, London, Boston, 1991.
Pinter, Harold, The Birthday Party, in Plays: One, Eyre Methuen, The Methuen Paperback, 1976.
Prentice, Penelope, The Pinter Ethic, The Erotic Aesthetic, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol.2237, New York, 2000.
Webster’s New Universal Dictionary of the English Language, Webster’s Universal Press, New York, 1977.
Internet Sources
Carl Savich, “belgrade 41: Hitler’s Attck”, Serbianna, August 31, 2006.
Wikipedia, “1999 NATO bombing of Novi Sad”, 4/9/2007.
“US-NATO bombs fall on Serbia: the “New World Order” takes shape, WSWS editorial board, 25 March 1999.
Schwartz, Peter, “NATO attack on Serbia has repercussions for Wurope as a whole, WSWS, 31 march 1999.
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06-28-2009
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Настић, Р. (2009). SYMBOLISM OF CELEBRATION IN PINTER’S BIRTHDAY PARTY, PARTY TIME, COUNTERBLAST AND CELEBRATION. Nasleđe, 6(12), 73–80. Retrieved from http://35.189.211.7/index.php/nasledje/article/view/178
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