The Central Event in David Storey's Plays
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4553104 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janelle Reinelt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 210 |
| Publication date | 1979-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3219377 |
| OpenAlex | W2329799626 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Like most authors, David Storey writes novels and plays which reflect his dominant experiences (working class background, art school, professional rugby). He has attempted to define a style which suits his material while avoiding the traditional solutions to problems of form provided by preceding generations. In his novels, Storey has striven to treat the gap between inner and outer experience without resorting to either of two popular solutions: Today there is no kind of cohesive social gesture which illustrates or opens up a wide aspect of society, which in a way disarms the novel itself. So you're left with either the interior element-endless subjective novels-or what we're going for in this country, imitation novels, rather like Angus Wilson. Using an old conception of a novel and trying to animate it with new but in the end basically conventional material
Event (particle physics · Physics · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 1979 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |