Title: Waiting for Godot:Metaphor of a “Post-theory” Condition
Abstract:Samuel Beckett is an indefinable author,but his master piece,Waiting for Godot,receives surprisingly unanimous interpretations,especially with the notion of The Theatre of the Absurd, which always ser...Samuel Beckett is an indefinable author,but his master piece,Waiting for Godot,receives surprisingly unanimous interpretations,especially with the notion of The Theatre of the Absurd, which always serves as the starting point as well as the goal of argument.This phenomenon runs quite counter to the intention of Beckett himself and the original features of the play.In terms of the author’s intention and the play’s plot,language and characters,the play actually presents a drastic conceptual crisis with the broken fragments after estimating the whole values again and the map of breaking away from such Grand Narratives as traditions,logos,reason,rules,logic,civilization,etc.It is a metaphor of a Post-theory condition on the dimension of conceptions.Read More
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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