Tom Stoppard: Bucking the Postmodern - Couverture souple

Jernigan, Daniel Keith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0786465328 ISBN 13 : 9780786465323

Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2012

Synopsis

Tom Stoppard is justly famous for his innovative theatrical techniques. Daniel Jernigan argues that while much of Tom Stoppard's early work (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Real Inspector Hound, for instance) is postmodern, the remainder of his career essentially tracks backward from there--becoming "late modernist" in the 1970s (Travesties) and fully modernist in the 80s and 90s (The Real Thing and Arcadia). This pattern also makes sense of Stoppard's recent and uncharacteristic foray into dramatic realism with The Coast of Utopia (2002) and Rock 'n' Roll (2006), at which point the playwright seems to embrace the more straightforward rhetorical advantages of literary realism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daniel Keith Jernigan is an assistant professor of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the editor of Drama and the Postmodern: Assessing the Limits of Metatheatre and has published on Tom Stoppard and Caryl Churchill.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McFarland & Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0786465328
• ISBN 13: 9780786465323
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 222
• Coordonnées du fabricant: McFarland; https://mcfarlandbooks.com/; ; Box 611; Jefferson; NC; 28640; Etats-Unis
• Personne responsable: non disponible