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Animal Kingdom
Ashes to Ashes
Author_Farah Ali
Benevolent Sexism
Betrayal
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Charlotte's Husband
Charlotte’s Husband
Civil Society
Cocktail Dresses
Contemporary Society
Depersonalisation
Diary Jottings
Emma's Relationship
Emma’s Relationship
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Francesca Cancian
Gender Levels
gender roles in plays
Gendered
Human Suffering
identity construction
Independent Woman
Language Game
linguistic power dynamics
Male Bond
Memory
memory and selfhood
modern British drama
Moll Cutpurse
Mountain Language
One for the Road
Pinter's Characters
Pinter's Plays
Pinter's Technique
Pinter's Works
Pinter’s Characters
Pinter’s Plays
Pinter’s Technique
Pinter’s Works
political theatre analysis
postwar drama identity crisis
Proustian Involuntary Memory
Rhetoric
Self-Actualise
Society
Wittgenstein's Pictorial Theory
Wittgenstein’s Pictorial Theory
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138080195
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Sep 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Let down by the uncertainties of memory, language, and their own family units, the characters in Harold Pinter’s plays endure persistent struggles to establish their own identities.
Eroding the Language of Freedom re-examines how identity is shaped in these plays, arguing that the characters’ failure to function as active members of society speaks volumes to Pinter’s ideological preoccupation with society’s own inadequacies. Pinter described himself as addressing the state of the world through his plays, and in the linguistic games, emotional balancing acts, and recurring scenarios through which he put his characters, readers and audiences can see how he perceived that world.
Farah Ali is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Leeds.
