Open AccessFIGURAL FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE: A STUDY OF THE SHORT PROSE OF SAM SHEPARD
Author(s) -
Ricardo Sobreira
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
signótica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2316-3690
pISSN - 0103-7250
DOI - 10.5216/sig.v20i1.5106
Subject(s) - narrative , indeterminacy (philosophy) , proposition , heaven , postmodernism , meaning (existential) , literature , philosophy , psychology , aesthetics , art , epistemology
ABSTRACT The paratactical style and the indeterminacies are literary strategies that resist the conventional impulse of totalizing the elements projected by the text, because instead of selecting the aspects of reality and subordinating the images and perceptions into a hierarchy, the use of these techniques favors the juxtaposition of multiple perspectives and the frustration of narrative closure. Thus, the use of parataxis and indeterminacies in the collection of short stories Great Dream of Heaven (2002), by the American author Sam Shepard, tends to challenge the process of meaning production through the progressive erasure of narrative “certainties”. KEY WORDS: Postmodern, indeterminacy, parataxis, narrative, Sam Shepard.