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A postmodernist reading of Sam Shepard's True West

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, dialo...

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Main Authors: Joodaki, Abdol Hossein, Shooshtarian, Samaneh
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Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2013
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spelling my-ukm.journal.65252016-12-14T06:41:25Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6525/ A postmodernist reading of Sam Shepard's True West Joodaki, Abdol Hossein Shooshtarian, Samaneh 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. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6525/1/2799-7444-1-PB.pdf Joodaki, Abdol Hossein and Shooshtarian, Samaneh (2013) A postmodernist reading of Sam Shepard's True West. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 19 (2). pp. 125-140. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l
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description 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.
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