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@article{ART001280334},
author={Sunoak Chun},
title={A Theatre-Sociological Approach to an Aesthetic of Disability in The Birthday Party},
journal={Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice},
issn={1598-060X},
year={2008},
volume={9},
number={3},
pages={39-60}

TY - JOUR
AU - Sunoak Chun
TI - A Theatre-Sociological Approach to an Aesthetic of Disability in The Birthday Party
JO - Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
PY - 2008
VL - 9
IS - 3
PB - Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
SP - 39
EP - 60
SN - 1598-060X
AB - Art-based educational research is attempted to enhance perspectives pertaining to human activities and the ultimate goal for doing ABER is the betterment of educational policy and practice. This study aims at finding an aesthetic of disability by a theatre-sociological approach to The Birthday Party by Pinter. On the level of psychological archetypes, The Birthday Party is a metaphor for the process of growing up, of expulsion from the world of childhood. Meg is a mother-image seen from the viewpoint of an Oedipus complex. Stanley is reluctant to leave the warm nest, and it reveals his wish to stay at the childhood status without the danger of castration. Goldberg and McCann are understood as the projection of father-image, the metaphor of society. Employing Lacan's terminology, Stanley remains in the 'imaginary' stage. The language used in the play is fragmental and illogical, since it is the language which fails to get into the 'symbolic', the world of the signifier and the order. The dialogue in this play contains many characteristics found in everyday conversation; frequent pauses and silence, repetitiveness, non sequiturs, mumbling, ambiguity, and the communication problems. Even aphasia is found in the subversive reaction of Stanley to the dominant language strategy of Goldberg and McCann. In the perspective of the postmodernism, such use of dialogues reflects the phase of the language deconstruction and the very essence of language itself. Pinter successfully recreates everyday language into an effective dramatic language and achieve an aesthetic of (language) disorder.
KW - aesthetic of disability;theatre-sociology;psychoanalysis;language disorder;postmodernism
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Sunoak Chun. (2008). A Theatre-Sociological Approach to an Aesthetic of Disability in The Birthday Party. Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice, 9(3), 39-60.

Sunoak Chun. 2008, "A Theatre-Sociological Approach to an Aesthetic of Disability in The Birthday Party", Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice, vol.9, no.3 pp.39-60.

Sunoak Chun "A Theatre-Sociological Approach to an Aesthetic of Disability in The Birthday Party" Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice 9.3 pp.39-60 (2008) : 39.

Sunoak Chun. A Theatre-Sociological Approach to an Aesthetic of Disability in The Birthday Party. 2008; 9(3), 39-60.

Sunoak Chun. "A Theatre-Sociological Approach to an Aesthetic of Disability in The Birthday Party" Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice 9, no.3 (2008) : 39-60.

Sunoak Chun. A Theatre-Sociological Approach to an Aesthetic of Disability in The Birthday Party. Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice, 9(3), 39-60.

Sunoak Chun. A Theatre-Sociological Approach to an Aesthetic of Disability in The Birthday Party. Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice. 2008; 9(3) 39-60.

Sunoak Chun. A Theatre-Sociological Approach to an Aesthetic of Disability in The Birthday Party. 2008; 9(3), 39-60.

Sunoak Chun. "A Theatre-Sociological Approach to an Aesthetic of Disability in The Birthday Party" Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice 9, no.3 (2008) : 39-60.