As Pinter's long-time friend David Jones reminded analytically inclined scholars and dramatic critics, Pinter was one of the "great comic writers": His dramatic conflicts present serious implications for his characters and his audiences, leading to sustained inquiry about "the point" of his work and multiple "critical strategies" for developing interpretations and stylistic analyses of it.
"Thematic, narrative or structural choices and issues of form and genre are understood to be choices for the writer; conceptual, interpretational, stylistic and semiotic choices are seen to be those of the director; the interpretation and development of role and character that of the performer; and the management of the creative vision of the production from page to stage that of the producer.
"Errors and confusions abound, as do misreadings of passages from Bellow's correspondence, while passages from his novels never receive the benefit of close interpretation or stylistic commentary".
Dr. M. J. Sprague is thanked for his critical reading and stylistic improvement of the manuscript.
His medley of three Sam Cooke hits — "Cupid," "Wonderful World" and "Another Saturday Night" — suffered by comparison to the original versions in which Cooke's soulful interpretations added incalculable depth and stylistic nuance.
Ms. Friedman's cooing baby-doll version of Mr. Sondheim's "Broadway Baby" may be the stylistic opposite of Elaine Stritch's hard-as-nails interpretation, but her character's pose of eye-batting naïveté can't conceal a desperate ambition lurking under the surface.
Acreage (Saturday) Presumably this collective's name refers to the breadth of stylistic ground that will be covered; certainly that interpretation makes sense, given a lineup of Uri Caine on piano, Steve Cardenas on guitar, Lonnie Plaxico on bass and Matt Wilson on drums.
An interpretation of the relief thus relies on stylistic comparisons with other objects for which the date and place of origin has been established, on an analysis of the iconography, and on the interpretation of textual sources from Mesopotamian mythology and religion.
The use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations.
