The Tempest: a postmodern reading
This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in English, 2016.
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10361-76802019-09-30T03:21:07Z The Tempest: a postmodern reading Palma, Theodore Sourav Islam, Syed Manzoorul Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University English and humanities The Tempest This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in English, 2016. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (page 38-39). The works of William Shakespeare have a universal influence and are considered the representatives of ‘all time and all ages’. Critics, scholars, academics and students have been rereading, reexamining, retelling and restaging his plays century after century. This dissertation proposes to examine The Tempest as a postmodern text. The postmodern elements: ant-formality, pastiche, intertextuality, paranoia, irony, playfulness, puns, wordplays, conspiracy theories, temporal distortion and supernatural elements create an atmosphere in The Tempest which can be described as postmodern. Focusing on the Ihab Hassan and Brian McHale’s definition and characterization of postmodernism which have created an opportunity to have a postmodern approach to The Tempest, this paper illustrates how Shakespeare deconstructs the formal properties of the text and uses pastiche that project a postmodern connotation of the play. The dissertation also explores the religious, mythological, geographical and historical references of characters and their names, events and incidents, and locations and places that construct intertextuality and insert paranoia in the play. In identifying postmodernist elements— particularly the presence of supernatural and dreamy world—this dissertation attempts to examine binaries natural vs. supernatural and reality vs. dream which are pivotal postmodern concepts. Based on Foucault’s The Eye of Power, the dissertation also discovers the Panoptical Gaze of Prospero who has assigned Ariel—as a surveillance to keep an eye on everybody and everything in the island. Finally, this paper aims at rereading The Tempest—as a postmodern text. Theodore Sourav Palma M.A. in English 2017-01-26T10:25:40Z 2017-01-26T10:25:40Z 2016 2016-04 Thesis ID 13263020 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/7680 en BRAC University thesis are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 39 pages application/pdf BRAC University |
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