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  • 标题:A Postmodernist Reading of Sam Shepard’s True West
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  • 作者:Abdol Hossein Joodaki ; Samaneh Shooshtarian
  • 期刊名称:International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature
  • 印刷版ISSN:2200-3592
  • 电子版ISSN:2200-3452
  • 出版年度:2013
  • 卷号:2
  • 期号:5
  • 页码:201-212
  • DOI:10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.2n.5p.201
  • 出版社:Australian International Academic Centre PTY. LTD.
  • 摘要:This paper attempts to render some vivid postmodernist features in Shepard’s True West (1980), which is inspired by myths of American life and popular culture. Shepard’s True West suggests so many interesting postmodern elements. With a departure from conventional norms of character, dialogue and narrative; the elements of pastiche, subjective irony, and savage humor have become hallmarks of most of his works. These features and some of the basic traces of postmodern literature, including Lyotard’s theory of the end of meta-narratives and language game, Derrida’s deconstruction and Baudrillard’s simulation, as well as language fragmentation, uncertainty and duality, altogether, have given Shepard’s True West a postmodern atmosphere.
  • 其他摘要:This paper attempts to render some vivid postmodernist features in Shepard’s True West (1980), which is inspired by myths of American life and popular culture. Shepard’s True West suggests so many interesting postmodern elements. With a departure from conventional norms of character, dialogue and narrative; the elements of pastiche, subjective irony, and savage humor have become hallmarks of most of his works. These features and some of the basic traces of postmodern literature, including Lyotard’s theory of the end of meta-narratives and language game, Derrida’s deconstruction and Baudrillard’s simulation, as well as language fragmentation, uncertainty and duality, altogether, have given Shepard’s True West a postmodern atmosphere.
  • 关键词:Postmodernist Literature; Grand Narratives; Duality; Self Reflexivity;Language Game; Binary oppositions; Simulacrum
  • 其他关键词:Postmodernist Literature;Grand Narratives;Duality;Self Reflexivity;Language Game;Binary oppositions;Simulacrum
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