碩士 / 國立政治大學 / 英國語文學系 / 86 / Abstract This thesis aims
at exploiting the postmodernity of Jean Genet's plays:The Maids,
The Balcony, The Blacks and The Screens. The first chapter
discusses how Genet makes use of the form of a playwithin a play
to foreground the theatricality of his plays. With this
structure,he expresses his view on reality: it is contstructed
in the same way as illusion.He thinks that nothing can be real.
The second chapter talks about the way postmodern parody
functions in his works:to reinforce the artificiality of the
plays and to make the audience aware of the theatrical devices.
The third chapter probes the indeterminacy and fluidity of his
plays. The fourth chapterdiscloses the playwright's notion that
one's identity is defined in terms ofone's role and one's
difference from the others. It also elaborates how
hedeconstructs the traditional binary opposition(in which there
is always asenior and a junior). Genet subverts the
conventional realistic theater by using its form.As he keeps
destabilizing his plays and emphasizing that appearance is
morereal than reality, he creates a theatrical world of
uncertainty and emptiness.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/086NCCU0238003 |
| Date | January 1998 |
| Creators | Chen, Yating, 陳雅婷 |
| Contributors | Rachel Juan, 阮若缺 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 98 |
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