A Postmodernist Reading of Sam Shepard's Buried Child
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Abstract
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 that Ihab Hassan has identified as essential to postmodern works. Moreover, it is attempted to show that in his depiction of American Family in decline, Shepard brings into account a consideration of postmodernity according to Baudrillard's theory of simulation and loss of real, Derrida's concept of deconstruction, andLyotard's theory of the fall of grand narratives. Finally, study reaches conclusion by displaying that all these features altogether have been real key to sense of fragmentation felt among family members, which bring to light postmodernist environment of postmodern world. Key words: Postmodernist Literature; Intertextuality; Metanarrative; Language Game; Parody; Pastiche; SimulacrumResume: Cet article tente d'analyser le post-modernisme comme un style a la fin du XXe siecle jouee dans la piece de Shepard, Buried Child. A titre d'exemple d'un drame post-moderne, Buried Child incarne l'ambiguite, la discontinuite, le pluralisme, la perversion, la deformation, la desintegration, la decontraction et la difference que Ihab Hassan a identifiees comme etant essentielles a des œuvres post-moderne. En outre, il est tente de montrer que, dans sa description de la famille americaine en declin, Shepard met en consideration d'un element de la postmodernite selon la theorie de Baudrillard de «simulation» et «perte du reel», le concept de «decontraction» de Derrida, et la theorie de «la chute des grands recits» de Lyotard. Enfin, l'etude arrive a la conclusion en affichant que toutes ces caracteristiques au total ont ete la veritable cle de sens de la fragmentation senti parmi les membres de la famille, qui mettent en lumiere l'environnement de post-moderne du monde post-moderne. Mots cles: Litterature postmoderne; Intersexualite; Metrait; Jeu de langage; Parodie; Pastiche; Simulacre
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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