To Close or Not to Close, That Is the Question: Sam Shepard's Deconstructive Evasion of Closure in A Lie of the Mind
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Sam Shepards dramatic vision, like Jacques Derridas philosophy, observes not a world securely supported by metaphysical certainties, but one of discards and throwaways appeased by landscapes filled with fragments and debris. It is, therefore, pointless to employ traditional methodologies to extract meaning out of a drama designed to resist this sort of interpretive strategy. If there is no methodology capable of resolving the fractured and indeterminate nature of Shepards drama, then it is essential to approach these plays from a perspective (deconstruction) that is unafraid of uncertainty and is not disappointed by an inability to arrive at a final and authoritative reading. Shepards resistance against the urge to create closed and finished texts reminds one of a major subject of poststructuralist/deconstructive concern: closure, whichbecause it stifles the interpretive processmust be recognized and avoided. This article is devoted to the examination of how Shepard, who is committed to an artistic vision that accepts indeterminacy, manages to end a play without limiting its interpretive possibilities; A Lie of the Mind is the text which will be studied to that end.
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Persian
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Critical Language & Literary Studies, Volume:10 Issue: 14, 2015
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73 to 91
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