COLLECTIONS, PRESS CONFERENCE, AND PINTER
Keywords:
Harold Pinter, Genre, Play, PoliticsAbstract
Challenging the traditional genre distinctions of play, prose, and poetry, Death etc., a collection of shorter pieces by Harold Pinter, epitomises the work of a “political” author at the time of his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. My essay discusses Press Conference, one of Pinter’s sketches for the stage, in the context of that particular collection. While showing the ways in which a dramatic piece like Press Conference turns into a piece of “writing,” or something which does not necessarily presuppose a stage production, i attempt to find out to what extent Press Conference is an expression of Pinter as a political writer.
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---. The Caretaker. Plays Two. London, Faber, 1996. 1-76.
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Prentice, Penelope. The Pinter Ethic: The Erotic Aesthetic. New York: Garland, 2000.
Varma, Indira. “Indira Varma.” Interview with Mary Luckhurst and Chloe Veltman. On Acting: Interviews with Actors. Ed. Mary Luckhurst and Chloe Veltman. London: Faber, 2001. 145-53.
Wolfson, Susan J., and Peter J. Manning. Note. “Manfred: A Dramatic Poem.” By Lord Byron. Selected Poems. By Byron. Ed. Susan J. Wolfson and Peter J. Manning. London: Penguin, 2005. 803-05.
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06-28-2009
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Yagi, N. (2009). COLLECTIONS, PRESS CONFERENCE, AND PINTER. Nasleđe, 6(12), 121–131. Retrieved from http://35.189.211.7/index.php/nasledje/article/view/182
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