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Journal articles on the topic "Absurdism"
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Pour, Fatemeh Karim, and Modgan Abshavi. "Investigating the Concept of Absurdity in A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen: A Critical Study." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 4, no. 10 (2021): 46–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2021.4.10.7.
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This study aimed at investigating the concept of absurdity in A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House is the primary source in the present study. The data that is applied in this paper belongs to library studies and research since the focus is on or literary works and materials. The results showed that miscommunication is one of the themes of absurdity, which was identified in the present play. There is a master-slave relationship, one of the themes of absurdism, between Nora and Helmer, which can be traced in the play. Materialism is also portrayed in the play as one of the themes of absurdism. The relationships between characters are based on profit. Telling lies, which can be a sign of absurdism, is shown in the play.
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Rasheed, Nausheen, Mamona Yasmin Khan, and Shaheen Rasheed. "Philosophical Exploration of Absurdism and Existentialism: A Comparative Study of Kafka's Work The Metamorphosis and The Trial." Global Social Sciences Review VI, no. II (2021): 94–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2021(vi-ii).10.
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The philosophical stance about the existence of being and the meaning of life has been a widely discussed subject among philosophers and critics. Existentialism says that a man can construct his own meaning of life by making judicious use of his awareness, free wills and personal responsibilities, but absurdism believes that there is no meaning of life out there. The focus of this study is to explore the absurdist and existential aspects in Kafka's fiction The Metamorphosis (1915) and The Trial (1925). This is qualitative comparative research, and the data which have been collected for this purpose is through purposive sampling techniques. In this study, Camus' theory of absurdism and theory of existentialism has been adopted as a theoretical framework. The study explores in what ways the traces of absurdism and existentialism are present in Kafka's fiction The Metamorphosis and The Trial. The findings show that characteristics of absurdism and existentialism are found in both the works of Kafka and are comparable with each other. For future recommendations, a comparative stylistic analysis of these selected novels can be carried out.
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Nawaz, Arshad, Muhammad Ijaz, and Khalid Mehmood Anjum. "Postmodern Absurdist Critique of Julian Barnes’s The Only Story." Global Language Review VI, no. II (2021): 94–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(vi-ii).11.
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This research paper endeavors to examine the postmodern absurdism as a literary sub genre in postmodern fiction. It delves deep into the concept of absurdism by concentrating upon the characteristics that distinguish it as a postmodern sub genre. Through the analysis of the postmodern novel, The Only Story (2018), this research paper illustrates how the characteristics of absurdism haven impact upon a postmodern society characterized by boredom, meaninglessness, futility, and confusion. It also highlights how different characters, events, and places have been portrayed in the novel to depict the absurdity of human existence. The theoretical paradigm of the research is based upon Thomas Nagel’s Essay “The Absurd” which is about postmodern space of absurdism and was presented in the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division. The study limelight's how the absurd occurrences and bizarre characters found in the researcher's primary text depict the complexity of the postmodern absurd world in both literal and metaphoric dimensions.
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Vogel, Shane. "Waiting for Godot and the Racial Theater of the Absurd." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 137, no. 1 (2022): 19–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812921000766.
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AbstractThis essay argues that the 1957 Black-cast revival of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot stages an Africana absurd sensibility that precedes and supersedes European philosophies of absurdism. While the Continental absurd developed as a repudiation of Western reason and aspired to a universalizing assessment of the human condition, the Africana absurd is situated in the historical formation of racial slavery and colonialism. More specifically, the Africana absurd is a response to the formal meaninglessness and incoherencies of Western racial logic. Locating it within the existential and historical situation of Black theater in the Jim Crow era and attending to theatrical elements such as casting, stage props, and choreography, this essay shows how the production recasts Beckett's absurdism, metatheatricality, and antihumanism to present, rather than represent, the felt absurdity of racial modernity.
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Handayani, Lusi, Sahrul N, and Roza Muliati. "ABSURDISME PELUKIS DAN WANITA KARYA ADHYRA IRIANTO." Grenek Music Journal 9, no. 2 (2020): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.24114/grenek.v9i2.19585.
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This study aims to reveal the absurdism value contained in the show Pelukis dan Wanita by Adhyra Irianto. This study uses a descriptive analysis approach with qualitative research methods. The theoretical framework chosen to answer the research questions is the concept of dramatic structure and the concept of absurdism. Several conclusions resulted from this research, namely, Pelukis dan Wanita by Adhyra Irianto has an indication of absurdism from play texts to performance texts. Painters and Women have plots that are not circular or circular, conflicts without certainty, unbalanced characters and unresolved ending. The indications of absurdism depicted in this work are irregularity, uncertainty and imbalance.
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Mlungwana, Yoliswa. "An African response to absurdism." South African Journal of Philosophy 39, no. 2 (2020): 140–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2020.1771823.
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Suwandana, Engkin. "EKSISTENSIALISME DAN ABSURDISME DALAM DRAMA KARYA PUTU WIJAYA." Jurnal Pena Indonesia 2, no. 1 (2017): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.26740/jpi.v2n1.p10-21.
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This study aims to (1) describe the existential drama Oh, Edan, and Dag Dig Dug works of Putu Wijaya which include: (a) freedom, (b) anxiety, (c) the failure, (d) the futility, (e) death, (2) describe absurdism in drama Ah, Edan, and Dag Dig Dug by Putu Wijaya which includes: (a) suicide philosophical, (b) the nature of the symbolic, and (c) of tragedy and comedy. This study focuses on (1) existentialism in the drama Oh, Edan, and Dag Dig Dug by Putu Wijaya which include: (a) freedom, (b) anxiety, (c) the failure, (d) the futility, (e) death and (2) absurdism in drama Ah, Edan, and Dag Dig Dug. This study is qualitative research, using descriptive qualitative research data collection. Descriptive method is a method which seeks to describe a phenomenon, the events that occurred at that time. In this study, descriptive method is used to describe the concept of existentialism and absurdism. This research data use existantialism theory and absurdism in playwrights by PutuWijaya. By using the technique with the data source in the form of three plays, the relevant data collection technique is a technique read. Reading the drama text data collection activities conducted by member’s attention totally focused on the object. Reading and listening is a set of techniques to obtain valid data followed by activities recorded data. This study concluded five concepts of existentialism and three concepts of absurdism. The results showed that existentialism in the drama Oh, Edan, Dag Dig Dug by Putu Wijaya, looked in terms of freedom, anxiety, failure, futility, and death. Three absurdism concepts in drama Ah, Edan, Dag Dig Dug by Putu Wijaya looked through suicide philosophical, symbolic nature, tragedy and comedy.
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Jahan, Rownak, and Nihal Farhan Kabir. "Use of Leitmotifs in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 5, no. 4 (2022): 26–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2022.5.4.4.
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Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot features leitmotifs as devices to induce the repetitiveness that is usually inherent in absurdist plays. Previous research, which included analysis of leitmotifs in a literary text, viewed leitmotifs as formalistic elements and such research seldom delved into their conceptual implications in regard to the text. This paper aims to provide insight into this opening by analyzing the leitmotifs used in Waiting for Godot. The purpose is to find out how these leitmotifs are used to convey and underscore some of the key concepts or ideas of the play. The theoretical lens is provided by the philosophy of absurdism, and some conceptual understandings of hope/hopelessness and colour/colourlessness aid in this regard as well. Findings from the discourse analysis of the text’s leitmotifs have been viewed in light of such theoretical and conceptual understandings to reach an assessment of how the leitmotifs assist in the play’s conveying of these ideas. This paper’s analysis of the leitmotifs of Waiting for Godot shows that - these leitmotifs highlight the text’s prominent and cyclical states of waiting and going as well as emphasize the exhibited futile natures of fate and sleep, and by such association, they enhance the portrayal of, in addition to bringing elevated focus on, the play’s depiction of the absurdity, hopelessness and colourlessness pervasive in the world of the ‘absurd’.
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Turahmat, Turahmat, and Jupriyanto Jupriyanto. "ABSURDISME INDONESIA DALAM �SUMUR TANPA DASAR� KARYA ARIFIN C. NOER." Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Indonesia 5, no. 1 (2017): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.30659/j.5.1.83-98.
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The issue that arises from the limitations of absurdism on the drama's text is: is it possible that the drama STD (The Well Without Basic) by Arifin C.Noer does not in any way recognize the existence of God in his narrative? Another issue is how the form of absurdism in this drama text ?. This research utilizes a hermeneutic approach. Data were collected using reading technique and record technique. There are two sources of data in this study, namely primary data sources and secondary data sources. The primary data source in this research is the drama of No Drawing Well by Arifin C.Noer. The data contained in this research are words, phrases, clauses, or phrases in the drama dialogue of the Unfounded Wells by Arifin C.Noer which allegedly contains markers of drama absurdism. The data were analyzed using hermeneutic readings. Then presented in the form of a neatly arranged and systematic report. The forms of absurdism in this text lie in the following points. First, this drama uses the myth as a source of storytelling. Secondly, in this drama script also occur events outside the logic that utilize the human subconscious. The story of human life or figure in the drama script is oscillated in uncertainty. Third, the storyline in the drama script STD contains events that can still trace the plot. The existence of God still appears in this drama script. The traces of God's power also appear to be intertwined in several dialogues.
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Klein, Emily B. "A New Feminist Absurd?: Women’s Protest, Fury, and Futility in Contemporary American Theatre." Modern Drama 65, no. 1 (2022): 24–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/md-65-1-1187.
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Absurdism has long been associated with existentialist white male writers like the ones Martin Esslin analysed in The Theatre of the Absurd (1961), which coined the term that came to define a lasting dramatic genre. More recently, however, several female playwrights have begun to reinvent this movement with an uncanny brand of feminist absurdism in their intimate domestic tragicomedies. In this essay, a close reading of Sheila Callaghan’s Women Laughing Alone with Salad (2015) serves as a touchstone for analysing performances of ludic feminist futility in plays by diverse writers including Ruby Rae Spiegel, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Alice Birch, and others. In their festive moments of anti-structural and non-linear oscillation between rage and glee, these plays mark the messy implosion of an outdated feminist political project, first anticipating and later reflecting the political tensions and crises evidenced in women’s voting, activism, and protest practices since the 2016 US presidential election. Often confining their characters within domestic or interior feminized spaces like kitchens, bedrooms, hidden supermarket aisles, or girls’ locker rooms, these playwrights celebrate failure and madness in the lives and labour of their female characters. By transforming historically feminized sites into dynamic spaces of resistance as well as spectacular failure, these performances of excess, from dieting to devouring, precarity to privilege, force audiences to confront cultural blind spots and failed or incomplete work toward efficacious feminist intersectionality. Furthermore, by bridging contemporary women’s anger research with whiteness and affect studies, this essay identifies a nascent trend in US theatre with a growing international profile that engages an updated absurdist rubric within a larger feminist praxis of political revolt.