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@article{ART001569071},
author={Seungmoo Paik},
title={A Study on M. Bulgakov's Metadrama},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2011},
volume={23},
pages={127-165},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2011.23..127}

TY - JOUR
AU - Seungmoo Paik
TI - A Study on M. Bulgakov's Metadrama
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2011
VL - 23
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 127
EP - 165
SN - 1598-0685
AB - This paper focuses on the specificities and semantic meaning of Mikhail Bulgakov's metadrama White Guard and The Flight. The standard conception of metadrama is to purposefully break the dramatic illusion and make bare a playwright's self-consciousness of the theatrical art itself. With the use of the metadrama Bulgakov expressed the essentials of ugly reality, which he couldn't accept as a valuable truth. In this respect, Bulgakov's metadrama becomes at once a window, from which he views the external world in the theatrical vision, and a mirror, in which his political and existential stance as a playwright is reflected. In White Guard Bulgakov described the already theatricalized reality through several instances of 'play-within-play'. In The Flight , composed of eight pieces of dream, a life turned out to be a less solid and less firm reality than dream. Continuously demolishing the cognitive wall between reality and illusion, Bulgakov leads spectators to have a reflective view on the reality. Allowing more powerful demonstrativeness for a play-within-play than for a play-within-play, Bulgakov elevates a metadramatic technique to the level of thematic structure.
KW - metadrama;playwright's self-consciousness;illusion;reality;play-within-play
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2011.23..127
ER -

Seungmoo Paik. (2011). A Study on M. Bulgakov's Metadrama. Cross-Cultural Studies, 23, 127-165.

Seungmoo Paik. 2011, "A Study on M. Bulgakov's Metadrama", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.23, pp.127-165. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2011.23..127

Seungmoo Paik "A Study on M. Bulgakov's Metadrama" Cross-Cultural Studies 23 pp.127-165 (2011) : 127.

Seungmoo Paik. A Study on M. Bulgakov's Metadrama. 2011; 23 127-165. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2011.23..127

Seungmoo Paik. "A Study on M. Bulgakov's Metadrama" Cross-Cultural Studies 23(2011) : 127-165.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2011.23..127

Seungmoo Paik. A Study on M. Bulgakov's Metadrama. Cross-Cultural Studies, 23, 127-165. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2011.23..127

Seungmoo Paik. A Study on M. Bulgakov's Metadrama. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2011; 23 127-165. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2011.23..127

Seungmoo Paik. A Study on M. Bulgakov's Metadrama. 2011; 23 127-165. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2011.23..127

Seungmoo Paik. "A Study on M. Bulgakov's Metadrama" Cross-Cultural Studies 23(2011) : 127-165.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2011.23..127