신화의 강을 타고 흐르는 이미지의 드러남과 갈등 : 샘 셰퍼드의 『진짜 서부』를 중심으로 = (The) rising-up and conflict of images through the river of myth in Sam Shepard's True West

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

True West is the best example among Sam Shepard´s plays in presenting the close relationship between image and myth: Image is rooted in the myth; myth appears through the image. Most of all, the nature of myth denying to be a static form is similar to that of the continuously changing image. This thesis expresses that image shows different meanings according to it´s changing shapes.
The function of image is not limited to supporting plot or spectacle. It transcends spectacle, plot, and the other four elements of drama-character, thought, diction, and song-Aristotle emphasized as the important parts of drama. That is, contrasted with ´plot-centered´ drama since Aristotle, Shepard´s ´image-centered´ drama erases the boundary between content and form, thereby making impossible the dual distinction between inside and outside. The image which first rises up in mind becomes tri-dimensional in that it is spilt into space by language, sound, gesture, painting, or acting. In this way, image can take a role as a reality.
In True West, images interact each other to transform characters and spectacles as well as appear to passive spectators. This kind of image that makes power can be defined as Deleuze´s ´event´, for it is not a physical or corporeal entity but just an ´effect´. The image as an event can be found in the role-playing between Lee and Austin, absent father, mythic desert, and two protagonists of Lee´s story, etc.
The relationship between image and myth in True West is effectively condensed in what Shepard called as "inner library." Staying in this inner library before rising up as signifier, image can employ every experience from immediate experiences to mythicized experiences mixed through movie, TV, music, ad, etc. In this library, Shepard draws up information and makes actual experience enliven on the basis of information. As it were, the ´inner library´ can serve two mythic principles, a perceptual and a conceptual structure. Lee represents the myth´s perceptual way, but his perception is also tainted with media´s influence. Shepard reminds us of perceptual ways of myth through Lee´s attitude toward things; However, he does not wholly acknowledge Lee´s ways. Nevertheless, Shepard continuously attempts to pursue the perceptual way of myth by using his dramatisized devices such as super-realism without following the Hollywood stereotype.
By enticing audience to follow images´ movement, True West produces senses(meanings) that are not logical or intentional. They rise partly from the co-existence of the real and the surreal, and partly from the exchange of meaningful symbolic words such as ´true west´ and ´Picasso´. In this way, images produce the play´s meanings through their continuously changing shapes.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 목차
• Ⅰ. 서론 = 1
• Ⅱ. 이미지는 사건이다 = 9
• Ⅲ. 셰퍼드의 극에 흐르는 신화의 물줄기 = 26
• 1. 신화적 지각방식 = 29
• 2. 신화의 층 = 38
• Ⅳ. 의미의 생산 방식 = 49
• 1. 현실과 초현실의 겹침 = 50
• 2. <진짜 서부>와 <피카소> = 57
• Ⅴ. 결론 = 66
• Works Cited = 71
• Abstract = 74