Key
● Characters
● Acts/ Scenes
● Pomo Techniques
Postmodern Techniques
● Intertextuality
○ The shaping of another text’s meaning by using another text.
○ Examples of how intertextuality could be used
➢ Allusion
➢ Quotation
➢ Calque (Loan translation)
➢ Plagiarism
➢ Translation
➢ Pastiche
➢ Parody
○ Intertextuality is used to weaken the relationship between text and reality
● Meshing of styles (Pastiche)
○ Something that imitates the style or character of work from one or more other artists
○ Pastiche celebrates the work it imitates
● Inclusion of popular culture
● Pushes the avant garde (edgy)
● Rejection of master narratives- there is no singular story
● Deconstruction and subversion
○ A deconstructive approach depends on a close reading of the text without external
influences such as culture, ideological or moral opinions, information or authorities such
as an author
● Fragmentism
○ A breakdown of the clear-cut narrative structure
○ It's the job of the reader to create a whole out of the fragments
● Reflexivity/ Metafiction
○ Works are explicitly aware of their own status as texts
○ Works comment on their own creation or process of creation
, ● Non-linear narratives
○ A disjointed or disrupted narrative
○ Events are portrayed out of chronological order
○ This is shown through
○ Narrating another story inside the main plot-line
○ Often used to mimic the structure and recall of human memory
● Death of the grand narrative
➢ Grand narratives include
➢ Christianity
➢ Marxism
➢ Capitalism
➢ Technology
➢ Psychoanalysis
➢ History
○ These have lost their value and are not sufficient for an understanding of life any longer
○ We now have to make do with the smaller and local narratives such as belief in personal
love
Act 1
Pomo Elements
● Death of a grand narrative
○ Doesn’t mention its South Africa
● Fragmentation
○ Doesn’t start at the beginning of the story
● Pastiche
○ Puppets (realism) and actors (Clowning, burlesque, over the top)
○ Reality vs. fantasy
● Intertextuality
○ Macbeth (ma)
○ Julius Caesar (Brutus)
○ Ubu Roi
● Symbolism
○ Vulture- a detached commentator (Like the chorus)
○ Eye- pa
○ Cat- Ma
○ Whistle collaboration between Pa and Dogs
● Multiple Truths
○ Pa
○ Ma
○ Brutus
● Characters
● Acts/ Scenes
● Pomo Techniques
Postmodern Techniques
● Intertextuality
○ The shaping of another text’s meaning by using another text.
○ Examples of how intertextuality could be used
➢ Allusion
➢ Quotation
➢ Calque (Loan translation)
➢ Plagiarism
➢ Translation
➢ Pastiche
➢ Parody
○ Intertextuality is used to weaken the relationship between text and reality
● Meshing of styles (Pastiche)
○ Something that imitates the style or character of work from one or more other artists
○ Pastiche celebrates the work it imitates
● Inclusion of popular culture
● Pushes the avant garde (edgy)
● Rejection of master narratives- there is no singular story
● Deconstruction and subversion
○ A deconstructive approach depends on a close reading of the text without external
influences such as culture, ideological or moral opinions, information or authorities such
as an author
● Fragmentism
○ A breakdown of the clear-cut narrative structure
○ It's the job of the reader to create a whole out of the fragments
● Reflexivity/ Metafiction
○ Works are explicitly aware of their own status as texts
○ Works comment on their own creation or process of creation
, ● Non-linear narratives
○ A disjointed or disrupted narrative
○ Events are portrayed out of chronological order
○ This is shown through
○ Narrating another story inside the main plot-line
○ Often used to mimic the structure and recall of human memory
● Death of the grand narrative
➢ Grand narratives include
➢ Christianity
➢ Marxism
➢ Capitalism
➢ Technology
➢ Psychoanalysis
➢ History
○ These have lost their value and are not sufficient for an understanding of life any longer
○ We now have to make do with the smaller and local narratives such as belief in personal
love
Act 1
Pomo Elements
● Death of a grand narrative
○ Doesn’t mention its South Africa
● Fragmentation
○ Doesn’t start at the beginning of the story
● Pastiche
○ Puppets (realism) and actors (Clowning, burlesque, over the top)
○ Reality vs. fantasy
● Intertextuality
○ Macbeth (ma)
○ Julius Caesar (Brutus)
○ Ubu Roi
● Symbolism
○ Vulture- a detached commentator (Like the chorus)
○ Eye- pa
○ Cat- Ma
○ Whistle collaboration between Pa and Dogs
● Multiple Truths
○ Pa
○ Ma
○ Brutus
