Postmodernist poetics of tankred dorst ’s drama Die Schattenlinie Cover Image

Wokół postmodernistycznej poetyki dramatu Tankreda Dorsta Die Schattenlinie
Postmodernist poetics of tankred dorst ’s drama Die Schattenlinie

Author(s): Czesław Płusa
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: the traditional and the modern poetics; crisis oft he modern consciousness; deconstruction as the postmodernist thinking profile

Summary/Abstract: The topic of these deliberations is the drama Die Schattenlinie by Tankred Dorst.The focus is on the demise oft he fundamental pillars of the literature created bythe world based on the metaphysical structure of good and evil, truth and falsehood. Thatwas the enclosed world, which was reflected in the unity of action, space, time, subject,thinking, family etc. Die Schattenlinie illustrates the transition to the postmodernist world, with its vanishing center being replaced with ‚differance‘ (Derrida). Polarizationand the antithesis of values have lost their old grandeur. The unrelenting dominanceof abstract logic, plan, progress and constraint of tradition have become a seeminglyperfect structure since they do not fulfill the ambitions of modern-day varieties of life.Thinking as an image oft he world in its casual and linear dimension has lost a cognitivevalue. Dorst’s drama encompasses many parallel realities, many worlds, with eventstaking place simultaneously.

  • Issue Year: 1/2016
  • Issue No: XVIII
  • Page Range: 111-124
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish