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- W121570551 abstract "is difficult to define and has therefore evoked much heated controversy. As Hans Bertens puts it: Postmodernism means and has meant different things from humble literary-critical origins in 1950s to a level of global conceptualization in die 1980s (Bertens 10). Paul A. Bove comments that, is, I think, a difference between early postmodern critics' efforts and more recent scholars expansion of (Bove, 9). It has often been discussed whether Samuel Beckett is a modern or postmodern writer, but I will not go into that question. I would rather like to focus on several recent productions of his Waiting for Godot, and show how they reflect postmodernism in way they are staged. Since term postmodernism is vague, ambiguous, and often problematic, I think it necessary to make clear how I am going to use it in my approach to theatre of Beckett. Cornel West in his analysis of postmodern American philosophy defines postmodernism as a denial of antirealism, demythologizing myth of Given, and de-transcendentalizing Subject (Bove 265-84). Deborah R. Geis summarizes six aspects of postmodernism, one of which is that the postmodern subject ? that is, split, multiple, or contradictory T ? is a decentered one, and so notion of 'character' is no longer holistic (Geis, 31-35). Both West and Geis treat issue of questioning subject in modern sense as being very important. Beckett himself seems to be more and more interested in split/multiple/fragmented subject in his late playlets, for instance by splitting a self into two alter egos as in Ohio Impromptu, by creating four characters only different in their names but in fact being split characters of Voice in What Where, or by having four identical dancers move around geometrically as in Quad. Beckett does not visually split or fragment characters in his early plays, starting with Waiting for Godot. Of course, as with other Beckett characters, characters in that play do not have a clearly defined self and they question who and what they are to each other. They are sometimes, as is mentioned, Adam, symbol of whole human being, but sometimes they are nobody with no certainty about who they are, where they are, and why they are there. They are not sure of themselves. But in Waiting for Godot there always exists a tension and an anxiety about their situation, which pulls us back to modern sense of what is Man. So even if" @default.
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- W121570551 title "POSTMODERN STAGINGS OF WAITING FOR GODOT" @default.
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