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  1. What the Buried Child Stands for: A Thematic Study of ...

    The research aims at studying the quest for identity which spans over the life of an American family in Sam Shepard's Play Buried Child. This paper extensively explores and portrays how members of ...

  2. Familial disintegration: A study of Sam Shepard's buried child

    ABSTRACT This study is a qualitative research that was conducted to analyze the escapism of Dodge's in Sam Shepard's The Buried Child. The writer uses the psychological approach to analyze the ...

  3. Sam Shepard's Buried Child : Unearthing the Family Drama

    For a discussion of the implicit doubling in Buried Child with respect to Dodge and Vince, see Su. 2. Thomas Nash, who asserts a connection between Shepard's play and Shirley Jackson's story, "The Lottery" (486), has connected Dodge to the mythological figure of the "Corn Spirit" who should be replaced by the new "Corn King" in ...

  4. Quest for Identity: A Study of Sam Shepard's Buried Child

    The research aims at studying the quest for identity which spans over the life of an American family in Sam Shepard's Play Buried Child. This paper extensively explores and portrays how members of ...

  5. Quest for Identity: A Study of Sam Shepard's Buried Child

    Danish Mir. 2018, International Journal of Research. The research aims at studying the quest for identity which spans over the life of an American family in Sam Shepard's Play Buried Child. This paper extensively explores and portrays how members of Dodge's family are struggling with the identity. It also focuses on lack of belongingness ...

  6. What the Buried Child Stands for: A Thematic Study of Sam Shepard's

    Abstract. As part of the family trilogy of Sam Shepard, Buried Child has been understood in that the corruption of the nuclear family has been identified as the theme of the play, and the guilt and the secret of this American family is the buried child who is regarded as the incestuous relationship between Halie and Tilden. This paper argues that the buried child is not only the illegitimate ...

  7. PDF The Disintegration of family: Analysis of Sam Sheperd's Buried Child

    The present paper analyzes Sam Sheperd's Buried Child, he was born on November 5, 1943. He is an American playwright, actor, director and he had written several plays, essays, and memoirs. The play Buried Child, first presented in 1978 has been written by Sam Sheperd. He received Pulitzer Prize for

  8. What the Buried Child Stands for: A Thematic Study of Sam Shepard's

    The 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Buried Child is one of Sam Shepard's most accomplished works. As part of the family trilogy of works by Sam Shepard, the corruption of the nuclear family has been identified as the theme of the play. The guilt and the secret of this American family is the buried child who is regarded as the incestuous ...

  9. PDF Disintegration and devaluation of american family: Sam shepard's buried

    The present paper will examine Sam Shepard's Buried Child, focussing upon the theme of enmity, lonesomeness, seclusion, emotional barrenness and erosion of the family. Sam Shepard was born on November 5, 1943. He is an American playwright, actor, and director. He has written several books of short stories, plays, essays and memoirs. The play ...

  10. Sam Shepard's Buried Child: Unearthing the Family Drama

    Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child (1977; revised 1997) resonates so strongly with twentieth-century U.S. literature that it seems to emerge from the earthy, Illinois soil echoing imaginations of writers who have come before. As one of Shepard's "family plays," it recalls the dynamics of family dysfunction familiar to us from Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey ...

  11. PDF A Postmodernist Reading of Sam Shepard's Buried Child

    This paper attempts to render a postmodernist reading of Sam Shepard's family play Buried Child. After an introduction to postmodernism in literature, in ge neral, and in drama, in particular, Shepard's Buried Child is analyzed,which is finally followed by the analysis of the play within a postmodernist frame, in which the

  12. Quest for Identity: A Study of Sam Shepard's Buried Child

    others. As Esther Harriot states, "Buried Child continues Shepard's obsession with identity" (American Voices: Five Contemporary Playwrights in Essays and Interviews 12). In the last episode Vince narrates: I studied my face. Studied everything about it. As though I was looking at another man. As

  13. What the Buried Child Stands for: A Thematic Study of Sam Shepard's

    As part of the family trilogy of Sam Shepard, Buried Child has been understood in that the corruption of the nuclear family has been identified as the theme of the play, and the guilt and the secret of this American family is the buried child who is regarded as the incestuous relationship between Halie and Tilden. This paper argues that the buried child is not only the illegitimate child in ...

  14. Sam Shepard'sBuried Child: Unearthing the Family Drama

    Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. Sam Shepard'sBuried Child: Unearthing the Family Drama (PDF) Sam Shepard'sBuried Child: Unearthing the Family Drama | Sarah Wyman - Academia.edu

  15. Quest for Identity: A Study of Sam Shepard's Buried Child

    The research aims at studying the quest for identity which spans over the life of an American family in Sam Shepard's Play Buried Child. This paper extensively explores and portrays how members of Dodge's family are struggling with the identity. It also focuses on lack of belongingness, search for roots, and association with past.

  16. A Postmodernist Reading of Sam Shepard's Buried Child

    Published 20 March 2011. Art. Canadian Social Science. Abstract: This paper attempts to analyze postmodernism as a style in Shepard's late-twentieth-century's play, Buried Child. As an example of a postmodern drama, Buried Child embodies ambiguity, discontinuity, pluralism, perversion, deformation, disintegration, deconstruction and difference ...

  17. PDF Familial disintegration: A study of Sam Shepard's buried child

    1 M. Phil Research Scholar, Department of English, ... This paper tries to assess the various reasons of crisis which lead to the fragmentation of family. ... Buried Child is a three act play and ...

  18. Quest for Identity: A Study of Sam Shepard's Buried Child

    The research aims at studying the quest for identity which spans over the life of an American family in Sam Shepard's Play Buried Child. This paper extensively explores and portrays how members of Dodge's family are struggling with the identity.

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    Authorization and Subversion of Myth in Shepard's Buried Child TUCKER ORBISON Some confusion has resulted from recent views on how Sam Shepard uses myth in Buried Child. Critics have asserted that two myths form the sub-text of the play: the vegetation myth of the Corn King and the legend of the Holy Grail.

  20. PDF Myth Analysis on Symbolic Code in Buried Child by Sam Shepard

    LEGALIZATION. The thesis entitled "Myth Analysis on Symbolic Code in Buried Child by Sam Shepard" has been defended before the Letters and Humanities Faculty's Examination Committee on 4 June 2008. The thesis is already been accepted as a partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Letters Scholar. Jakarta, 4 June 2008.

  21. Escapism in Sam Shepard's The Buried Child

    The research aims at studying the quest for identity which spans over the life of an American family in Sam Shepard's Play Buried Child. This paper extensively explores and portrays how members of Dodge's family are struggling with the identity.

  22. The Offstage Character in Modern American Drama: Sam Shepard's Buried Child

    ABSTRACT This study is a qualitative research that was conducted to analyze the escapism of Dodge's in Sam Shepard's The Buried Child. The writer uses the psychological approach to analyze the ...

  23. Buried Child Essays and Criticism

    In Buried Child, Shepard draws upon the essential elements of these rituals—fertility and nourishment, growth and maturation, death and resurrection—and symbolically provides each a chilling ...