The end: the apocalyptic in in-yer-face drama

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Bal, Mustafa
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This thesis presents a close analysis of one of the ageless discourses of human life – apocalypse, or the End – within the highly controversial In-Yer-Face drama of the 1990s British stage. The study particularly argues that there is a strong apocalyptic sense in the plays of the decade, and it discovers that the apocalyptic representation within these plays varies. Five plays by three prominent playwrights of the decade are used to illustrate and expand the focus. After a detailed examination of the apocalyptic discourse, it is claimed that Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and F***ing and Faust is Dead are based on certain philosophical ideas of the End, Anthony Neilson’s Normal and Penetrator reveal the apocalyptic through an extreme use of violence, and Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis comingles representations of the apocalyptic and psychological trauma.
English literature., Theatre
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12610781/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18984
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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M. Bal, “The end: the apocalyptic in in-yer-face drama,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2009.
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