Harold Pinter's The dumb waiter / / edited by Mary F. Brewer.

• Superior document: Dialogue ; 6
• TeilnehmendeR: Brewer, Mary F.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Dialogue (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This collection of essays focuses on one of Harold Pinter’s most popular and challenging plays, The Dumb Waiter , while addressing also a range of significant issues current in Pinter studies and which are applicable beyond this play. The interesting and provocative dialogues between established and...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• A Realist-Naturalist Pinter Revisited / Naoko Yagi
• The Dumb Waiter: Realism and Metaphor / Radmila Nastić
• (Re)Thinking Harold Pinter’s Comedy of Menace / Basil Chiasson
• Feeding Power: Pinter, Bakhtin, and Inverted Carnival / David Pattie
• Return of the Referent / Varun Begley
• “Disorder… in a Darkened Room:” the Juridico-Political Space of The Dumb Waiter / Juliet Rufford
• High Art or Popular Culture: Traumatic conflicts of representation and postmodernism in Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter / Catherine Rees
• Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter: Negotiating the boundary between “high” and “low” culture / Michael Patterson
• ‘The Ironic Con Game’ Revisited: Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, a Key to Courage / Penelope Prentice
• The “Other” Within Us: the Rubin’s Vase of Class in The Dumb Waiter / Jonathan Shandell
• Anti-Ritual, Critical Domestication and Representational Precision in Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter / Lance Norman
• “Mixed feelings about words:” Language, politics and the ethics of inter-subjectivity in The Dumb Waiter / Mary F. Brewer
• Unpacking the Pinteresque in The Dumb Waiter and Beyond / Marc E. Shaw
• The First Last Look in the Shadows: Pinter and the Pinteresque / Anne Luyat
• Essay Abstracts
• About the Authors
• Index.