Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama A Study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard 1st Edition by Mufti Mudasir ISBN 1443854085 9781443854085

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ISBN 10: 1443854085
ISBN 13: 9781443854085 
Author: Mufti Mudasir

The book is a study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, arguably the two most eminent British playwrights of the past sixty years or so, from a perspective of what it describes as a poetics of postmodern drama. Arguing for the application of Linda Hutcheon’s model of postmodernism to the study of drama, Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama shows that postmodern drama should be seen as a self-consciously contradictory and double-coded phenomenon, one which simultaneously inscribes and subverts the conventional categories of dramatic representation.

In spite of its indebtedness to Beckett’s Absurdist and Brecht’s Epic theaters, postmodern drama should not be conflated with either. This is primarily because postmodern drama retains a critical edge towards contemporary reality in a manner which Hutcheon very aptly terms as a ‘complicitous critique’.

The book demonstrates that both Pinter and Stoppard are pre-eminently postmodern in their treatment of issues such as the human subject, the notion of truth, historical verifiability and linguistic reference. Pinter’s preoccupation with non-referential modes of language-use, the role of power in the construction of the subject, and unreliable memories is as potent a way of disrupting the representational status of drama as Stoppard’s repeated recourse to devices such as parody, theater-within-theater and the fictional treatment of history.

Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama A Study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard 1st Edition Table of contents:

• Introduction: Understanding Postmodern Drama
• Postmodernism and Theater: Key Concepts and Theories
• Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard: Masters of Postmodern Drama
• Language and Meaning in Postmodern Theater
• The Absurd and the Comic: A Postmodern Lens
• Fragmentation and Discontinuity in Dramatic Structures
• Harold Pinter: Subtext, Silence, and Power Dynamics
  • The Birthday Party: Analyzing the Threat of the Unknown
  • The Homecoming: Interpersonal Power Struggles
  • Betrayal: Memory and Time in Relationships
• Tom Stoppard: Intertextuality and Intellectual Playfulness
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: A Meta-Theatrical Exploration
  • Arcadia: Science, Art, and Chaos Theory
  • The Real Thing: Reality and Representation
• Themes of Alienation and Identity in Pinter and Stoppard
• The Role of the Audience in Postmodern Drama
• Postmodern Drama in a Contemporary Context
• Conclusion: Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama
• Bibliography
• Index

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