TY - JOUR AU - Sobreira, Ricardo da Silva PY - 2008/11/25 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Figural forms of knowledge: a study of the short prose of Sam Shepard JF - Signótica JA - Signótica VL - 20 IS - 1 SE - Artigo DO - 10.5216/sig.v20i1.5106 UR - https://revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/5106 SP - 195-207 AB - <p>ABSTRACT<br />The paratactical style and the indeterminacies are literary strategies that resist<br />the conventional impulse of totalizing the elements projected by the text, because<br />instead of selecting the aspects of reality and subordinating the images and<br />perceptions into a hierarchy, the use of these techniques favors the juxtaposition<br />of multiple perspectives and the frustration of narrative closure. Thus, the use<br />of parataxis and indeterminacies in the collection of short stories Great Dream<br />of Heaven (2002), by the American author Sam Shepard, tends to challenge the<br />process of meaning production through the progressive erasure of narrative<br />“certainties”.<br />KEY WORDS: Postmodern, indeterminacy, parataxis, narrative, Sam Shepard.</p><p> </p><p> </p> ER -