| Description |
1 online resource (x, 242 pages). |
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Studies in modern drama
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Studies in modern drama.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A poetics for thugs / Varun Begley -- "You'll never be without a police siren" : Pinter and the subject of law / Marc Silverstein -- Harold Pinter's "Before the law" / Steven Price -- Harold Pinter's Ashes to ashes : the criminality of indifference and the failure of empathy / Charles V. Grimes -- Comedy and crime : Pinter's primal power / Penelope Prentice -- Lost in the funhouse : crime and spectacle in Pinter's screenplay of Kafka's The trial / Ann C. Hall -- Lie detectors : Pinter/Mamet and the Victorian concept of crime / Ira B. Nadel -- Gradations of criminality in the plays of David Mamet / Kimball King -- Melville's The confidence man and his descendants in David Mamet's work / Barry Goldensohn -- Fantasy crimes/fictional lives : Lakeboat / Anne M. Dean -- David Mamet's House of games and the allegory of performance / Elizabeth Klaver -- More uses of the knife as signifier in The cryptogram, The old religion, and The edge / Thomas P. Adler -- A theater of the self : Mamet's The edge as a figura of otherness / Claire Magaha -- Suckered again : the perfect patsy and The Spanish prisoner / Leslie Kane. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Mamet, David -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Mamet, David. |
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Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008 -- Motion picture plays.
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Motion picture plays. |
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Mamet, David -- Motion picture plays.
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Criminals in literature.
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Criminals in literature. |
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Crime in literature.
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Crime in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Kane, Leslie, 1945-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Art of crime. New York : Routledge, 2004 (DLC) 2004302469 |
| ISBN |
0203642066 (electronic book) |
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9780203642061 (electronic book) |
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0415968305 (Cloth) |
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