Howard Barker: politics and desire : an expository study of his drama and poetry, 1969-87

This is a new, revised and updated paperback edition of the critically acclaimed first full-length critical assessment of this most individual, challenging, conceptually energetic of British dramatists, whose recognition and influence have extended to a position of international eminence. INDICE: Contents - Acknowledgements - Foreword to the Paperback Edition - Chronology - Lubricating Progress through the Forbidden - Innocence and Authority - Independence and the Family - Between Two Worlds - New Manner for New Situation - Landscapes of Shame, Eruptions of Desire - Splintered Faith and ScarTissue - Power and the Body - Every Man's Evil Expresses Me - Pain and Breakthrough - Catastrophe is also Birth: Inconclusion - Appendix: Conversations - Notes - Bibliography - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-57740-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 30/01/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés