Rebirth or Relapse:Subversion of Myth in Shephard’s Buried Child  

作　　者：JIANG Yi-ling LI Jian-min 

机构地区：[1]South China Business College,Guangdong University of Foreign Studies,Guangzhou,China

出　　处：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》2022年第11期1114-1118,共5页文学与艺术研究（英文版）

摘　　要：American playwright Shepard’s plays are known for their open endings.The ending of Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play-Buried Child is intriguing.Some critics see this ending as a sign of the rebirth of American families and the revival of American dream.But this article stands on the opposite position to give a negative answer to Haile’s“That may be the sun”(Shephard,1981,p.66)at the end of the play through illustrating Shephard’s authorization and subversion of two important myths in the play,which is a way of parody in postmodern theory.By digging the family scandals and corruption of American families in the play,it is expressed that perhaps the natural world has a chance to be reborn,but not human society under the pathetic and corruptive social background.

关 键 词：PARODY SUBVERSION MYTH buried child 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]