Ronald Harwood's Tragic Vision: A Critical Analysis of His Novels, Plays, and Screenplays
Autor Ann C. Hallen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 noi 2024 – vârsta ani
Ronald Harwood’s Tragic Vision offers the first critical analysis of prolific and award-winning British author Ronald Harwood (1934–2020). Though he received an Oscar for The Pianist, a knighthood, and numerous other awards and nominations, Harwood worked as a ghostwriter, script doctor, and veritable unknown for many years. As he became successful, many critics still misread his works and positioned him as a less-fashionable counterpart to his lifelong friend Harold Pinter. This study proposes a conceptual framework to approach his, and others’, work based on the genre of tragedy, offering a greater appreciation for and understanding of the Harwood canon.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781609389772
ISBN-10: 1609389778
Pagini: 202
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: University of Iowa Press
Colecția University Of Iowa Press
ISBN-10: 1609389778
Pagini: 202
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: University of Iowa Press
Colecția University Of Iowa Press
Recenzii
“As a survey of Ronald Harwood’s oeuvre, this book faces little to no competition. It clearly fills a gap in the market. Ann Hall’s book ambitiously attempts a selective synopsis of the plots of seven novels, sixteen plays, and eight screenplays.”—Peter Lawson, author, Anglo-Jewish Poetry from Isaac Rosenberg to Elaine Feinstein
“Ann Hall capably knits together the various strands of Harwood’s oeuvre with a compelling focus on what she defines as his ‘tragic vision,’ identified primarily in his construction of flawed or complex lead characters, often outsiders to their own social environments, who are nobly facing adverse or compromising conditions, or addressing their own inner conflicts. Though the emphasis is on the tragic, a rich undercurrent of humor is celebrated as a key component of the author’s voice. What emerges from this highly readable study is a very clear set of patterns in Harwood’s writing including nuanced autobiographical impulses, the thrall of totalitarian regimes, the horror of the Holocaust, the dignity of Jewish community, and the iniquitous persistence of antisemitic sentiment, and, perhaps most importantly, the role of art as an enduring civilizing force, as a force of resistance in an exigent world.”—Mark Taylor-Batty, University of Leeds
“Relying upon interviews with Harwood as well as detailed readings of his works, Ann Hall highlights the multifaceted nature of his cultural imprint, which includes his membership in the ‘unfashionable’ theatre set, his crafting of tragic figures across all three genres, his political writing as a Jew and a South African condemning oppression, especially Nazism and apartheid, and his exclusive focus on adaptation in his film scripts.”—William C. Boles, author, Mike Bartlett
“Ann Hall capably knits together the various strands of Harwood’s oeuvre with a compelling focus on what she defines as his ‘tragic vision,’ identified primarily in his construction of flawed or complex lead characters, often outsiders to their own social environments, who are nobly facing adverse or compromising conditions, or addressing their own inner conflicts. Though the emphasis is on the tragic, a rich undercurrent of humor is celebrated as a key component of the author’s voice. What emerges from this highly readable study is a very clear set of patterns in Harwood’s writing including nuanced autobiographical impulses, the thrall of totalitarian regimes, the horror of the Holocaust, the dignity of Jewish community, and the iniquitous persistence of antisemitic sentiment, and, perhaps most importantly, the role of art as an enduring civilizing force, as a force of resistance in an exigent world.”—Mark Taylor-Batty, University of Leeds
“Relying upon interviews with Harwood as well as detailed readings of his works, Ann Hall highlights the multifaceted nature of his cultural imprint, which includes his membership in the ‘unfashionable’ theatre set, his crafting of tragic figures across all three genres, his political writing as a Jew and a South African condemning oppression, especially Nazism and apartheid, and his exclusive focus on adaptation in his film scripts.”—William C. Boles, author, Mike Bartlett
Notă biografică
Ann C. Hall is professor of comparative humanities at the University of Louisville. She is author of, among others, A Kind of Alaska: Women in the Plays of O’Neill, Pinter, and Shepard. Hall lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
Descriere
Ronald Harwood’s Tragic Vision offers the first critical analysis of prolific and award-winning British author Ronald Harwood (1934–2020). This study proposes a conceptual framework to approach his, and others’, work based on the genre of tragedy, offering a greater appreciation for and understanding of the Harwood canon.