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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the Absurdism Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The generic positions in Beckett is a very complicated issue. if one...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The generic positions in Beckett is a very complicated issue. if one allows this simplification of sorts, I think what Joyce does is to create a multi-generic work in Ulysses or Finnegans Wake, but in Beckett's works, especially the late works, there is a breakdown or an internal transformation of genres. It all becomes one pure-genre. The prose becomes poem. Theatre becomes poetry.
Rockaby is verse-theatre. Ruby Cohn and Enoch Brater call it...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:33:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[No, Pinter's play is not absurdist drama. The setting is realistic,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[No, Pinter's play is not absurdist drama. The setting is realistic, there is one basic plot with no subplots, and the language is realistic--qualities not found in absurdism.&quot;The Homecoming&quot; is a &quot;comedy of menace,&quot; a phrase coined by drama critic Irving Wardle to describe the plays of Harold Pinter and David Campton. What that means is that even though these plays may be funny, the laughter they induce may be nervous...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 10:06:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is Harold Pinter's play &quot;The Homecoming&quot; an absurdist drama?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is Harold Pinter's play &quot;The Homecoming&quot; an absurdist drama?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 08:45:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[On enotes there is a great section on Absurdism here:...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[On enotes there is a great section on Absurdism here: http://www.enotes.com/absurdism/

There's a section on "historical context" which talks about world war II, the feeling of evil, and other historical things that were happening which lead to absurdism.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:51:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the cultural and historical context of Harold Pinter's Absurdest...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the cultural and historical context of Harold Pinter's Absurdest play, "The Dumb Waiter"]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:36:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Beckett has been reported saying: "I am not unduly concerned with...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Beckett has been reported saying: "I am not unduly concerned with intelligibility. I hope the piece would work on the necessary emotions of the audience rather than appealing to their intellect." In other words, Beckett was more interested in how the audience felt and reacted rather than being concerned about whether or not they eight-minute short play made sense on an academic or intellectual level.  In addition, the use of language in the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:38:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the genre of Rockaby by Samuel Beckett and what is the ideology...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the genre of Rockaby by Samuel Beckett and what is the ideology behind this genre?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:27:17 PST</pubDate>
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