جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "modernist" در نشریات گروه "ادبیات و زبان ها"

The present study identifies the features of postmodern subject in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape (1958), Sam Shepard’s Buried Child (1978), and Tom Stoppard’s Travesties. These three plays beautifully showcase the sense of belonging and non-belonging of modernist subjects toward essentialism, and that is how such subjects moves toward postmodernism’s belief on lack of commitment to neither absolute belonging nor non-belonging. Dislocated memories, textual and constructed nature of memories, schizophrenic characters, and their inclusive belonging to discursive oppositional points of binaries are the features around which the study will pursue its discussions. While discussing these features, the study utilizes critical insights proposed by two key figures in literary theory and criticism: Linda Hutcheon when it comes to postmodernism in A Poetics of Postmodernism (1988) and Politics of Postmodernism (1989), and Nick Mansfield when one wishes to discuss the issue of subjectivity in Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway (2000). Amir Ali Nojoumian’s A Brief Introduction to Modernism in Literature and A Brief Introduction to Postmodernism in Literature would be utilized to enrich study’s take from modernism and postmodernism too. Absence of even an abstract unified understanding of the past, the uneasy and hectic juxtaposition and superimposition of a series of contradictory narratives out of the past experiences of schizophrenic subjects, and lack of belonging to – or inclusive belonging to – either sides of binaries are the key titles of the study’s findings while it reviews the transitional status of the subjectivity of the plays’ characters.

The positioning of described in modernist stories is different from the classical stories. In this regard, the techniques, functions, and subjects are also changed. Description in traditional stories is unique to describe concepts and observable. The descriptions structure is built on the basis of actual elements, inclusivism and visual. But in modern works, the descriptions are internalized. These works are more attentive to behaviors than appearance. Modern author pays attention to the secondary and spiritual meanings of the characteristics of individuals and objects that it is the resultant of his philosophical analysis of his subjects. The basis of the descriptions is based on component, subjective and imaginary elements. In this regard, the techniques, functions, and subjects are also changed. The reflections of the works of Abootorab from the perspective of the modern techniques of descriptions such as conflict, obscurity, and reality of providing are for clearer and more accurate representation of the methodology of description. In this study, the description techniques are investigated in method (analytical - descriptive). The main question of this study is based on whether the comparative study of modern and traditional stories can be referred to as a status difference in these two categories? The results of this study show that Khosravi works have the ability to analyze new techniques of descriptive and modern techniques, known as "the modernist described".

In search for new ways of going beyond the risky limits of artificiality and repetition, modern authors have left the inflexible structures behind. By considering philosophical bonds of modernism and literary form of modern works, they have developed writings that sometimes seem hard to comprehend. Presence of mental structures and their interference with linguistics ones, paying attention to the unconscious and new philosophical thoughts about the nature of time, making prose similar to poetry, indefinite meanings and open endings, sue of symbolic and surreal viewpoints in the story, tendency towards ancient myths, etc. are among the reasons why such works are hard to understand. Even though, such difficulty in understanding does not mean that they are totally incomprehensible. By knowing the techniques used by modernist authors and understanding how to read such works, one can discover their coherent structures and understand them correctly. The present paper deals with difficulties of modern novels in terms of language, meaning, and structure.