Theses (Institute of English and American Studies)

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Theses (Institute of English and American Studies) Szerző szerinti böngészés "Ádám, András Bence"

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    Normalcy and Deviance in the Symbolic Spaces of Buried Child
    (2013-01-25T07:01:51Z) Ádám, András Bence; Varró, Gabriella; DE--TEK--Bölcsészettudományi Kar
    Sam Shepard is inarguably one of the most influential (and successful) contemporary American playwrights, if not the most influential one. Although he hails from Illinois, the American heartland, through his symbolism it becomes clear that he is concerned with questions which bear an impact on the whole country, not just his region. Shepard addresses numerous problems, like the failure of the American Dream, the dysfunction of the American family, but perhaps most importantly with the deterioration of traditional American values. [...] Decline is present in almost all of Shepard’s plays. It is usually some kind of imperfection, deviance, or aberration from the normal that signals this deterioration. Buried Child (1978), perhaps his most canonized work, the piece which won him the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is a play that demonstrates this deviance excellently, since it is a text richly imbued with images of corruption. Decay is present on almost all layers of the drama: in the setting, in the characters, in the themes and motifs the play deals with.
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    Translating Realia
    (2013-01-23T09:20:05Z) Ádám, András Bence; Csontos, Pál; DE--TEK--Bölcsészettudományi Kar
    Sam Shepard is one of the most popular contemporary American playwrights, yet in Hungary barely more than a handful of people (except for scholars and academic circles) know his name, despite the fact that his most successful plays are available in Hungarian as well, thanks to Árpád Göncz and Mária Révész. The obscurity of Shepard is particularly intriguing if we consider his thematic occupa-tions: he is far from being elitist and abstract. The wide range of themes he deals with in his plays includes everyday problems like love, family and personal fulfillment (amongst others). As the reader can see, these are issues that everybody has to deal with at one point in their lives. What is more, they universally apply both to Americans, and Hungarians (and every other people in the wide world). This unexplainable anonymity of Shepard is exactly why I chose him (and my favorite play by him, Buried Child) to be the subject of the present thesis. I think that the key to un-locking the secret of Shepard’s unpopularity in Hungary lies in the text of his plays, or to be more precise, the way he conveys meaning in his plays. Shepard makes heavy use of realia, which results in a text that is deeply embedded in the American culture. In order to make bet-ter sense of Shepard’s culturally imbued texts, I think it necessary to familiarize oneself with the prime conveyors of culturally embedded meanings, namely realia.