영국 부조리극의 포스트모던 리얼리티 : 포스트모던문학

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Postmodern Reality in British Absurd Drama
Abstract Byung Hyun Yang·Sang-Hyok Lee
Today, contemporary criticism tends to regard postmodern literature as part of realism. The background of this tendency appears in an effort to obtain a sense of reality from trifling or popular events around us. This movement seeks to avoid the modernist way of seeking art for art's sake by elites. In fact, in one sense, postmodern literature seems radical in its sceptical treatment of history and tradition; and in another sense, it treats the fragmented lifestyle of common people as it is. However, it refuses an absolute criteria of existing narrative forms by approaching literature as a meta-science which is supposed to try to take away the subject as a center of literary criticism. This new tendency seems to highlight the features destroying tradition. This deconstruction is what absurd literature shows. It is to be sceptical of tradition and to be nihilistic towards current values in an extreme way, thereby defining itself as postmodernim. This paper tries to point out British absurd drama that is to be found in postmodern reality, and it outlines those realistic features in view of postmodernism.
British absurd dramatists in postmodern times are to be dealt with, especially those thoroughly criticising existing orders or anti-humanistic metaphysics. In doing so, they use strategies of deconstruction consciously or subconsciously. What the postmodern absurd drama does is to experience the liberation of the self and its frustrations, at the same time to continue satire and criticism of something beyond the self. In fact, they deconstruct metaphysics underlying history and tradition. Likewise, the tension and conflict found in postmodern absurd drama are themselves the essence of postmodernism. In the sense of the literary forms used by absurd dramatists, it can be shown that postmodern form can lead to a worsening of the abstract realism found in postmodern reality; and in terms of content, it can be said that postmodern absurd dramatists use deconstruction to arrive at an aubsurd reality and their use of deconstruction sets the agenda for postmodern reality.

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현대비평,   리얼리티즘,   예술양식,   포스트모던문학,   문학양식,   부조리문학