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In this book, Jeanette Malkin considers a broad spectrum of post-war plays in which characters are created, coerced and destroyed by language. The playwrights examined include Handke, Pinter, Bond, Albee, Mamet and Shepard, as well as Vaclav Havel and two of his plays: The Garden Party and The Memorandum. These playwrights portray language's power within our political, social and interpersonal worlds. The violence that language does, the 'tyranny of words', grabs centre stage in their plays. Characters are manipulated and defined through language, their actions and identity limited by verbal options, in order to reveal the links between language and power. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of drama, theatre history, American and European literature, and comparative literature.

Dialogue --- Dialoog --- Geweld in de literatuur --- Violence dans la littérature --- Violence in literature --- Drama --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- Violence dans la littérature --- 20th century --- Dialogue. --- Violence in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 82-2 "19" --- 82-2 "19" Toneel. Drama--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Toneel. Drama--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Dialog

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Era by era, from the writings of the classical Christian epoch up to East of Eden and Amadeus, from Philo to Finnegans Wake, Ricardo Quinones examines the contexts of a master metaphor of our culture. This brilliant work is the first comprehensive book on the Cain and Abel story."Ricardo Quinones takes us on a grand tour of Western civilization in his admirable book, which reveals the riches of the Cain-Abel story as it develops from its Biblical origin to Citizen Kane and Michel Tournier. This is cultural history and literary criticism of the first order, finely written, formidably but gracefully erudite, and illustrating the capacity of Judeo-Christian culture and the modernity emerging from it constantly to criticize the darker side of its own foundations and realizations."--Joseph Frank"Ricardo J. Quinones skips Biblical and Talmudic exegesis to follow Cain and Abel through later centuries, from classical times to the present. What he uncovers sheds light on important shifts of consciousness and behavior in European and American culture. . . . Quinones writes with true eloquence and conviction. . . ."--James Finn Cotter, The Hudson Review"Quinones's study of how [the] three Cains were transformed by Romanticism and Modernism into a sometimes positive, sometimes negative, but always necessary archetype of the modern world is literary and cultural analytic history at its very best."--ChoiceRicardo J. Quinones is Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of English and Comparative Literatures, and Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. He is the author of The Renaissance Discovery of Time (Harvard), Dante Alighieri (Twayne), and Mapping Literary Modernism: Time and Development (Princeton).Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Abel -- (Biblical figure) -- In literature. --- Bible. -- Genesis IV, 1-15 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Brothers in literature. --- Cain -- (Biblical figure) -- In literature. --- Human sacrifice in literature. --- Violence in literature. --- Frères dans la littérature --- Violence dans la littérature --- Sacrifice humain dans la littérature --- Cain --- Abel --- Violence dans la littérature --- Sacrifice humain dans la littérature --- Frères dans la littérature --- In literature. --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Medieval historians and literary scholars have not ignored the topic of sexual violence and rape, but the primary focus has regularly rested on English, French, or Italian documents. Here we have the first book-length study that investigates the treatment of sexual crimes in medieval and early modern German and Latin literature, making great efforts to shed light on often ignored scenes and episodes even in some of the ,classical' works such as Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival or the anonymous Nibelungenlied. As this monograph reveals, many times we face situations where we cannot easily determine whether rape has occurred or not. Consequently, we recognize an important discourse in these literary examples concerning the question of how to view and deal with sexual violence, which could also involve men as victims. This critical examination extends toward sixteenth-century jest narratives (Schwänke) where the issue of rape continued to occupy the authors' minds. Moreover, as numerous side glances to contemporary European literature indicate, the theme of sexual violence was of universal concern and critical importance during the entire premodern era.

German literature --- Rape in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Violence in literature. --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- Literature, Medieval --- Littérature allemande --- Viol dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Violence dans la littérature --- Littérature latine médiévale et moderne --- Littérature médiévale --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Comparative literature --- Thematology --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1799 --- Littérature allemande --- Viol dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Violence dans la littérature --- Littérature latine médiévale et moderne --- Littérature médiévale --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Medieval Gender Issues. --- Medieval German Literature. --- Rape. --- Sexual Violence. --- Women's Rights.

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English literature --- Thematology --- Ireland --- History in literature --- Violence in literature --- Littérature anglaise --- Histoire dans la littérature --- Violence dans la littérature --- Irish authors --- History and criticism --- Congresses --- Auteurs irlandais --- Histoire et critique --- Congrès --- History in literature. --- Literature and history --- Violence in literature. --- Lerarenopleiding --- History and criticism. --- (vak)didactiek talen --- -History in literature --- -#KVHA:Literatuurgeschiedenis; Ierland --- #KVHA:Literatuurgeschiedenis; Engeland --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- -History and criticism --- -Irish Free State --- In literature --- -In literature --- (vak)didactiek talen. --- Littérature anglaise --- Histoire dans la littérature --- Violence dans la littérature --- Congrès --- #KVHA:Literatuurgeschiedenis; Ierland --- Irish authors&delete& --- In literature. --- Authors [Irish ] --- Ireland in literature --- Congresses.