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The Late Harold Pinter

Political Dramatist, Poet and Activist

By: Basil Chiasson

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Hardcover | 28 August 2017

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256 Pages

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16.0 x 23.0 x 1.9

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This volume is the first to provide a book-length study of Pinter's overtly political activity. With chapters on political drama, poetry, and speeches, it charts a consistent tension between aesthetics and politics through Pinter's later career and defines the politics of the work in terms of a pronounced sensory dimension and capacity to affect audiences. The book brings to light unpublished letters and drafts from the Pinter Archive in the British Library and draws his political poems and speeches, which have previously been overshadowed by his plays, into the foreground. Intended for students, instructors, and researchers in drama and theatre, performance studies, literature, and media studies, this book celebrates Pinter's later life and work by discerning a coherent political voice and project and by registering the complex ways that project troubles the divide between aesthetics and politics.

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"This book was very well written, and Chiasson went above and beyond to explain to readers how Pinter's later works used both affect and aesthetics to convey their messages. ... this book would be important to anyone who wants to study politics, poetics, rhetoric, and the media. This could be a particularly good book for a class that is studying media and politics." (Katy Johnson, CBQ Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Vol. 49 (2), 2018)

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