Text as Agent in Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class

Authors

Charles R. Lyons, Stanford University

Abstract

In lieu of an abstract, the first paragraph of the essay follows:

One of the assumptions that dominates aesthetic theory today is the problematic nature of the idea of the subject.¹ Since the 1960's, the influence of structural linguistics and anthropology has informed literary theory by questioning the following traditional notions: (1) the uniqueness and integrity of the author as the originating center of a work; and (2) the representational function of art and literature; that is, the possibility of a correspondence between a fictional character and a hypothesized counterpart in the objective world.

Recommended Citation

Lyons, Charles R. (1990) "Text as Agent in Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class," Comparative Drama: Vol. 24: Iss. 1, Article 2.
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/compdr/vol24/iss1/2