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Harold Pinter and the Language of Cultural Power
For all their attempts to "own" language, Pinter's characters discover that words constitute alienable property; that language forms, de-forms, and re-forms subjectivity; that, as a system preceding the individual, language carries embedded within it the values, desires, and imperatives of the Other - the dominant cultural order. By introducing questions of subject position and ideology into his discussion, author Marc Silverstein shows how the plays exhibit a political dimension largely ignored by the bulk of Pinter criticism, which attempts to classify his oeuvre as a form of absurdist drama. It is Silverstein's contention that Pinter does not concern himself with the fate of the individual lost in an incomprehensible and meaningless universe (the "absurdist" Pinter), but instead explores the vicissitudes of living within ideological, discursive, and social structures that always exceed the subject.
Apologise Later
The first ever Biography of Robert Newton... "He was never an actor, he was always like that, a little devil...!" The man laughs; laughter in his voice and in his eyes, glad at the rich memory. Lamorna, Cornwall, June 2005. From an idyll Cornish childhood to a desperate death amidst the Hollywood elite. Cowboy, beach-bum, loaded and flat broke. He survived the bloodiest naval arena in the second world war; married four times he failed as a husband and a father. He starred in dozens of films, dozens of plays. Newton was more than an actor, yet he is the quintessential pirate, Disney's 'Long John Silver', is the brutal 'Bill Sykes' in Oliver Twist. Farmer, tax exile, he ran his own theatre and loved Rolls Royces. In America and Australia. Generous, gregarious, needful, lost, he swept through life and left people reeling in his wake; Olivier, Burton, Coward, Wayne. Laughing, infected with his joyous lust for life. He hid discretion under a coat of folly, but he was the man who would tell you, tell everybody, loudly, that the Emperor was naked...
