Namely, Pinter's The Homecoming and Baker's Circle Mirror TransformationĪnd to compare how the two writers use pauses in these two dramas. Pauses in literary texts, more specifically, in selected extracts from two plays, In this regard, the present study aims to examine the forms and functions of Their occurrence in speech has a value that tends to be quite understandable. For theirĬommunicative function essentials, they can help both readers and hearers. Speech, promoting effectively language communication. Readers to gain a better and deeper understanding of certain texts as well as

Pauses as pragmatic markers are considered as important devices that help In other words, it is how those moments of silence mark a state of calmness on the one hand and how this state gives way to those of fear and eventually death on the other that I would like to explore and expound in the course of this analysis. In his paper, I would like to make clear that my intention is to investigate the notions of fear, uncertainty, menace and death evoked when characters pause or keep silent in Pinter’s Silence and The Dumb Waiter. And when characters stop talking one needs to contemplate their unsaid thoughts. When it pervades one has to think deeply of that moment.

Silence in a Pinter play is unexpectedly never silent. It is not just a moment when characters keep silent and the audience cannot hear their utterances it is a moment so pregnant with meanings that the reader finds it difficult to find his way to the final meaning. Thus, the book should be of equal significance to those encountering Pinter within the context of English Studies, drama, and performance.The Silences and pauses, Harold Pinter has employed in his plays, have remarkably encapsulated his mastery of such theatrically effective techniques. The collection offers essays that approachThe Dumb Waiter, from an interdisciplinary perspective and as both a literary and dramatic text.

Each contributor shows a gift for presenting a complex argument in an accessible style, making this book an important resource for a wide range of readers, from undergraduates to postgraduates and specialist researchers. The collection is also concerned with the meaning of the play when assessed against other example's of Pinter's work, both dramatic and non-dramatic writing. The essays range over issues of autobiography and theater, genre studies, and the impact of Pinter's political activism on his dramatic production, among others. The interesting and provocative dialogues between established and emerging scholars featured here provide close readings of The Dumb Waiter, within relevant cultural and historical contexts and from a range of theoretical perspectives. This collection of essays focuses on one of Harold Pinter's most popular and challenging plays,The Dumb Waiter, while addressing also a range of significant issues current in Pinter studies and which are applicable beyond this play.

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