MERLEAU-PONTIAN CONCEPTS IN THE POSTDRAMATIC PLAYS OF SARAH KANE

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In this thesis, it is asserted that form and content of Sarah Kane’s plays 4.48 Psychosis and Crave are complementary, reflecting the inner states of their characters, and that this complementarity manifests and is manifested by postdramatic elements. As evidence, and to analyze how the plays are constructed in this way, the plays are examined with reference to three essential Merleau-Pontian concepts, synesthesia, being-in-the-world, embodiment and with reference to postdramatic elements. The thesis shows the keen relationship between mind and the material world depicted in Kane’s work, and reveals how these elements alienate the audiences and readers of her plays. Each chapter analyzes character portrayal in one play, with the aim of showing how the experience of mental illness is depicted from the inside out. By analyzing 4.48 Psychosis and Crave in relation to the Merleau Pontian terms, the three-fold nature of Sarah Kane’s theatre of integration is revealed: intertextual integration that supposes a thematic similarity between the selected plays, on-stage integration of the audience through a shared experience of alienation, and integration of body and mind that has been depicted as fragmented and obscure in her plays. Thus, this thesis asserts that the postdramatic elements in these plays uncover the experience of perplexing mental states to reveal minds in confusion, pain or suffering from enduring violence, and it explains this through Merleau-Pontian concepts. It contributes to postdramatic studies by utilizing phenomenological terms to study stylistic elements in plays that disrupt theatrical conventions and create a rupture from conventional dramatic form, presenting an erosion of subjectivity.

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Synesthesia, Being-In-The-World, Embodiment, Postdramatic Theatre

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B. Bozdağ, “MERLEAU-PONTIAN CONCEPTS IN THE POSTDRAMATIC PLAYS OF SARAH KANE,” M.A. - Master of Arts, Middle East Technical University, 2022.