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Ghiasuddin Alizadeh

Ghiasuddin Alizadeh

Academic rank: Assistant Professor
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Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Literature and Human Sciences
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Title
زمانمندیهای غیر طبیعی و مکانهای مفروض در نمایشنامه "گاوچرانها شماره 2" اثر سام شپرد
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JournalPaper
Keywords
Sam Shepard’s Cowboy #2, unnatural narratology, impossible worlds, projected places, postmodernism
Year
2021
Journal ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries
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Researchers Ghiasuddin Alizadeh

Abstract

Sam Shepard’s Cowboys #2 (1967) belongs to his first period of play writing. In this phase, his works exhibit experimental, remote, impossible narrative/fictional worlds that are overwhelmingly abstract, exhibiting “abrupt shifts of focus and tone” (Wetzsteon 1984, 4). Shepard’s unusual theatrical literary cartography is commensurate with his depiction of unnatural temporalities, in that, although the stage is bare, with almost no props, the postmodernist/metatheatrical conflated timelines and projected (impossible) places in the characters’ imagination mutually reflect and inflect each other. Employing Jan Alber’s reading strategies in his theorization of unnatural narratology and Barbara Piatti’s concept of projected places, this essay proposes a synthetic approach so as to naturalize the unnatural narratives and storyworlds in Shepard’s play.