{"product_id":"pinter-in-play-9780822316749","title":"Pinter In Play","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An original and important book relevant to current general interests in literary theory and the problems of interpretation as well as to Pinter scholarship and criticism. Merritt has produced a work of ‘metacriticism’ that I would expect to remain of permanent value. Her knowledge of Pinter scripts, performances of them, and of Pinter critics and reviewers is vast, and parallel to her demonstrations of changes in critical strategies and perspectives, she evokes a sense of the changes Pinter has gone through as a playwright.\"—Michael Steig, Simon Fraser University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Paperback Edition  xi\u003cbr\u003e Preface  xvii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  xxi\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations  xxix\u003cbr\u003e Perspectives on Pinter's Critical Evolution\u003cbr\u003e 1. \"Progress\" and \"Fashion\" in Pinter Studies  3\u003cbr\u003e 2. Aims, Kinds, and Contexts of Criticism  25\u003cbr\u003e 3. Criticism as Strategy  49\u003cbr\u003e 4. Pinter's \"Semantic Uncertainty\" and Critically \"Inescapable\" Certainties  66\u003cbr\u003e Some Strategies of Pinter Critics: Themes, Rituals, Games, Fantasies, Dreams\u003cbr\u003e 5. Thematic Tactics and Ritural Ruses: Searches for Meaning  89\u003cbr\u003e 6. Psychoanalytic Maneuvers: Smoke Screens against Recognition  108\u003cbr\u003e 7. Some Other Language Games: Linguistic Parlays and Parleys  137\u003cbr\u003e 8. Cultural Politics  171\u003cbr\u003e Social Relations of Critical and Cultural Change\u003cbr\u003e 9. Contingencies of Value Judgments of Pinter's Plays  213\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Case of Pinter: Toward Theory as Practice in Critical and Cultural Change  245\u003cbr\u003e Notes  277\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited  299\u003cbr\u003e Index  329","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406016717143,"sku":"9780822316749","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822316749.jpg?v=1730494253","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pinter-in-play-9780822316749","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}