John Osborne'un Öfke Adlı Oyununda Metinlerarası Alaycılık

Year 2014, Volume: 54 Issue: 1, 307 - 318, 01.01.2014

Jovanka Kalaba

Abstract

Eleştirmenler ve gazetecilerin dilini “öfkeli” bulduğu ve başkahramanı Jimmy Porter’ı ‘Genç Öfkeli Adam’ akımının temsilcisi olarak gördüğü John Osborne’un Öfke adlı oyuna odaklanan bu çalışma, ortaya koyulan öfkenin büyük ölçüde bir söz sanatı olarak değerlendirilen iğnelemeyle gerçekleştirildiği ortaya koyulacaktır. Osborne’a göre ise oyunundaki ‘devrimci’ söz sanatı yanlış algılanmış ve bu doğrultuda tiyatro sahnesine “öfkeli” olarak yansıtılmıştır. Jimmy Porter’ın alt sınıf günlük hayatını gözler önüne seren Öfke, ağırlı olarak Britanya’daki sosyal, tarihsel ve toplumsal konularından kaynaklanan sözel saldırganlıkla ve metinlerarası kinayeyle yüklüdür. Bu çalışmada Porter’ın kişisel savaşında iğnelemeyi kullanma biçimi, günümüz toplumundaki iğnelemenin teorik ve uygulamalı özelliklerine odaklanan John Haiman’ın Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language ışığında incelenecektir.

Keywords

Tiyatro, Dilsel Saldırganlık, İğneleme, Metinlerarasılık

Sarcastic Intertextualities as Angry Speech in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger

Abstract

Starting from John Osborne’s negative reaction to theatre critics’ and journalists’ perception of Look Back in Anger’s idiosyncratic language as “angry”, as well as their perception of the protagonist Jimmy Porter as a representative of the Angry Young Man movement, this paper considers sarcasm as one of the key aggressive rhetorical devices used in the language of the play. Osborne thought that the specific, even revolutionary rhetoric of his play was in most cases misunderstood and wrongly conveyed in theatre adaptations as “angry”, which made the performance lose the edge that the language of the play had the potential for. Look Back in Anger provides an insight into the Porters’ lower-class mundane dailiness, charged with verbal aggression and intertextual allusiveness stemming from deeper political, historical and social issues of mid-twentieth-century Britain. This paper focuses on Jimmy Porter’s prevalent use of sarcasm as a weapon in his personal battle, by taking John Haiman’s Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language, to illustrate how the language of Look Back in Anger coincides with Haiman’s conclusions on the theoretical and applied characteristics of sarcasm in contemporary society.

Keywords

Theatre, Verbal Aggression, Sarcasm, Intertextuality

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