Jeanette R. Malkin, Malkin Jeanette R.

Verbal Violence in Contemporary Drama

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers a spectrum of post-war plays in which characters are created, coerced and destroyed by language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780521032711
• ISBN-10: 0521032717
• Artikelnr.: 20971696

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Language torture: on Peter Handke's Kaspar
3. Gagged by language: verbal domination and subjugation
4. Language as a prison: verbal debris and deprivation
5. Wrestling with language: 'head to head'
6. Conclusion
Notes
Index.