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“포스트모던 드라마에 대한 기존 연구들이 대부분
유희성과 공연성에 초점을 맞추고 있는 방법론상의 한계를 지적하고
포스트모던 숭고성에 근거한 인식론적 관점을 제시하다”

기존의 포스트모던 드라마 연구가 연극 현상, 무대 공연 기법 등 공연 텍스트의 실증적 분석에 초점을 맞추었다면, 이 책의 연구는 철학적이고 인식론적 연구라 할 수 있다. 즉 포스트모던 시대에 리얼리티를 어떻게 인식하고 설정하는가를 탐색하며, 그 핵심 개념으로 포스트모던 숭고성을 설정한다. 이 책에서는 최근 200년 동안 계몽주의에서부터 포스트모던 숭고성까지 변모해 온 리얼리티 인식이 서구 연극의 무대화(mise-en-sc?ne)에 어떻게 반영되었는지를 추적하였다.

Janelle Reinelt(Emeritus Professor of Theatre and Performance University of Warwick)
Hoon-sung Hwang’s excellent systematic study of modern drama captures the historical, political, and aesthetic context of the great shift from modernity to postmodernity. In theorizing the failure of the Enlightenment and the rise of the postmodern Sublime, Hwang encompasses all the major thinkers from Hegel to Jameson, and from Derrida and Lyotard to Bourdieu. The (English) drama highlights the major shifts in human thinking about these concepts and also, according to Hwang is itself illuminated through these concepts. The genealogy traced through Shaw and O’Neill to Pinter and Beckett is compelling and insightful, and the volume will help specialists and non-specialists alike develop an understanding of the seismic changes in the philosophy and art of the last and present century.

Elaine Kim(Emeritus Professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies UC Berkeley)
Professor Hoon-sung Hwang’s study of modern British drama in the context of Western thought from the Enlightenment to the present provides us with not only brilliant close readings of the work of playwrights from Shaw to Beckett but also valuable insights into the limits of our belief in “progress” and the possibilities of postmodern cultural critique.

Acknowledgements................................................................................................................ 3
Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 5

Theoretical Groundworks
1. Modern Drama as a Project of Enlightenment ................................................... 18
2. A Theoretical Excursion into the Postmodern Sublime ..................................... 45

Book I
I. Modern Drama of Enlightenment................................................................................. 86
1. The Plot Structure of Bernard Shaw's Didactic Drama ..................................... 86
2. he Dramatization of Habitus: A Bourdieun Reading of Pygmalion ............... 106
3. Eugene O'Neill's Dramatization of Nietzsche's Idea of
the Anti-Bourgeois Spirit ......................................................................................... 124
4. Political Unconscious Staged in J. M. Synge's
The Playboy of the Western World......................................................................... 152
5. "Circe": A Modernist's Gesture to Stage the Sublime
in the Human Psyche................................................................................................ 176

Book II
II. Postmodern Drama of the Sublime......................................................................... 202
1. The Postmodern Drama as mise-en-sc?ne of the Sublime .......................... 202
2. The Postmodern Politico-technological Sublime Staged
in David Pledger's K................................................................................................. 217
3. The Textual Sublime: Samuel Beckett's Endgame as
A Postmodern Allegory on the Relationship between Man and Nature ...... 235
4. The Political Sublime Staged in Harold Pinter's Late Plays ......................... 257
5-1. The Sublime Universe of Simulation in Beckett's Stage:
Reflexivity as the Exchange of Signs within the Text ................................... 273
5-2. Theatereality as a Way of Simulating Virtual Reality on Stage.................. 286

III. Conclusion....................................................................................................................... 319

Select Bibliography............................................................................................................... 324
Index....................................................................................................................................... 354