本书将哈罗德·品特放在一个大的文学和社会背景中，从文本细读入手，结合社会背景和作家本人的生平资料与作家思想进行研究，运用福柯的权力和政治理论，从多角度分析他的早期和后期作品的权力和政治主题，探讨他的思想性和与众不同的艺术性。文章结论认为品特是一名高度负责和关注人生的艺术家，他毕生探索权力与政治以及人类生存状况，对当代政治世界和文学世界做出了伟大贡献。他的政治戏剧是他一生对如何用艺术形式表达他的政治关注的探索的结果。本书为施赞的专著，正文使用语种为英文。

Acknowledgements
摘要
Abstract
Introduction
0.1 Biographical notes on Harold Pinter
0.2 Understanding Pinter’s works
0.3 Literature review of Researches on Pinter’s plays
0.3.1 Pinter’s status in the literary world
0.3.2 Pinter as an Absurdist
0.3.3 Pinter’s language
0.3.4 Freudian interpretation
0.3.5 Gender interpretation
0.3.6 Pinter’s politics
0.4 The argument of the dissertation
Chapter One Pinter’s political concerns in his Comedy of Menace
1.1 The General conditions after WWII
1.2 The Theatre of the Absurd
1.3 Pinter’s Comedy of Menace
1.4 The Significance of the Comedy of Menace
Chapter Two Pinter’s small “p” politics: Struggle for Power
2.1. Micro-power in Pinter’s early plays
2.1.1 Power as relationship
2.1.2 Power as a network
2.1.3 Power as subjectless and decentered and omnipresent
2.1.4 Power related to knowledge and truth
2.2\tInfluences on Pinter’s conception of Struggle for Power
2.3 Language and Power
Chapter Three Pinter’s capital “P” Politics
3.1. Pinter’s political complex since his early age
3.2. Pinter and the British theatre in the 1980s and 1990s
3.3 Politics in Pinter’s late plays
3.3.1 Politics in One for the Road
3.3.2 Politics in Mountain Language
3.3.3 Politics in Party Time
3.3.4 Politics in The New World Order (1991)
3.3.5 Politics in Ashes to Ashes (1996)
3.4 Pinter’s exploration of politics
3.5 Language and politics
Conclusion
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