Abstract
Harold Pinter, the Nobel Laureate for Literature in 2005, delivered his Nobel Prize lecture through a pre-recorded video in London. The image of Pinter displayed next to his speech on the Swedish Academy’s website departed from the conventional single portrait shown alongside other laureates; a younger, healthier image of the dramatist was placed alongside a video still of Pinter in his wheelchair. The physical effort of the performance and unusual circumstances under which it took place were highlighted by the superimposition of an image from the lecture onto the fading portrait (Figure 8).
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Hall, A. (2012). Disability as Metaphor: The Nobel Prize Lectures of Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee. In: Disability and Modern Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230355477_5
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