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Chattopadhyay, Arka |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2019-06-19T11:12:55Z |
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dc.date.available |
2019-06-19T11:12:55Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2019-06 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Chattopadhyay, Arka, "Harold Pinter's aging male speakers: affect of exhaustion and metaphors of agency", The Harold Pinter Review, DOI: 10.5325/haropintrevi.3.1.0001, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-13, Jun. 2019. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2473-8433 |
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https://doi.org/10.5325/haropintrevi.3.1.0001 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
https://repository.iitgn.ac.in/handle/123456789/4499 |
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dc.description.abstract |
�Does speech evoke exhaustion as a subjective affect in the experience of aging? The article traces this question by navigating through the plays of Harold Pinter. Cognitive experiments and social studies on �ageism� variously approach the effect of aging on language. Inverting this causality, the article shows how the elderly �frenemies� in Pinter's No Man's Land suggest linguistic exhaustion as the affective cause (and not effect) of aging. No Man's Land offers a culmination by not only indicating this exhaustion but also by glimpsing the agency of old age in a metaphoric capture that offers resolution. Pinter aestheticizes this �no man�s land� by turning it into a poetic metaphor, which bears an implicit critique of negative ageism. Situating the poetics of aging in dramatic language and anchoring it in the debate about the �conceptual� or �linguistic� status of metaphor opens up the exact nature of Pinter's metaphors. |
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dc.description.statementofresponsibility |
by Arka Chattopadhyay |
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vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-13 |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
Penn State University Press |
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dc.subject |
Age |
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Language |
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dc.subject |
Exhaustion |
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dc.subject |
Theater |
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dc.subject |
Cognition |
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dc.subject |
Age discrimination |
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dc.subject |
Cognitive linguistics |
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dc.subject |
Poetry |
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dc.subject |
Mind |
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dc.title |
Harold Pinter's aging male speakers: affect of exhaustion and metaphors of agency |
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dc.type |
Article |
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dc.relation.journal |
The Harold Pinter Review |
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