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"Everything in me lies"
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Abstract In Sam Shepard's plays, America is full of traditional and mythical symbols. He uses these emblems in order to subvert their meanings and manifest the discrepancies between characters' living in the West and the realities they confront. In his play, A Lie of the Mind, Sam Shepard reflects on the tra... view more
In Sam Shepard's plays, America is full of traditional and mythical symbols. He uses these emblems in order to subvert their meanings and manifest the discrepancies between characters' living in the West and the realities they confront. In his play, A Lie of the Mind, Sam Shepard reflects on the traditional meanings of myth and the erasure of them in the postmodern societies. Furthermore, the postmodern universe in these three plays is bombarded with representation and distortions of reality, and hyperreality which make reality be masked and obscure. The characters enter in simulations of reality after accepting the fact that the true reality doesn't exist. As a matter of fact, myths are not real; they are simulations of the past myths. Media with its glamorous and captivating power is of the most influential mediums in constructing the hyper real.... view less
Keywords
myth; reality; society; literature; postmodernism; tradition; media; United States of America
Classification
Macrosociology, Analysis of Whole Societies
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of the Science of Communication
Free Keywords
Shepard, S.
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 35-51
Journal
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (2015) 64
ISSN
2300-2697
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed