<b>An Althusserian Reading of Harold Pinter’s One for the Road<b>

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2014-6-14

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Aydoğdu, Merve

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Louis Althusser in his seminal essay “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1970) discusses the ways through which a State dominates/subjugates its subjects by means of Repressive and Ideological State Apparatuses, the effects of which are traceable in Harold Pinter's 1984-play One for the Road. Within this scope, this paper seeks to examine Pinter's one-act play from an Althusserian point of view with a view to demonstrating the manipulative influence of ISAs and SA on the creation of subjects who would serve for the State.

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Althusser, Harold Pinter, Ideological State Apparatuses

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/51459

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Journal of History Culture and Art Research

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https://doi.org/10.7596/taksad.v3i1.306

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M. Aydoğdu, “<b>An Althusserian Reading of Harold Pinter’s One for the Road<b>,” Journal of History Culture and Art Research, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/51459.