Construing time as blank signs in Waiting for Godot

Author:

Lin Xuejiao12ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Soochow University , Suzhou 215006 , China

2. Liaoning University , Shenyang 110136 , China

Abstract

Abstract Story time and narrative time are two interrelated issues in the research of drama. In Waiting for Godot, mere explorations in the perplexing systems of story time cannot pin down the signifieds of time, while incontiguity and quiescency of narrative time highlight the theme “Existence of time is meaningless”. The contradictory and paradoxical co-existence of story time and narrative time contributes to the construing “the void of ambiguous signifieds” and “the void of ambiguous signifiers” of time as blank signs.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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