Power, Position and Agony in Harold Pinter's One for the Road.

This paper attempts a Foucauldian analysis of power, position and agony in Pinter's One for the Road (1984). Pinter was a leading British political playwright in the 20th century. In his plays, he focused on the political situation and distinguished between power-haves and power-have nots: the oppre...

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Publicado en:IUP Journal of English Studies Vol. 9; no. 3; pp. 37 - 48
Autores principales: Vairavan, C., Dhanavel, S. P.
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Publicado: IUP Publications Sep2014
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          Vairavan, C.
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          Anna University, Chennai 600025, Tamil Nadu, India
          Professor, Department of English, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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        Agonism (Political science)
        Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008
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        Totalitarianism
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