Tom Stoppard Bucking the Postmodern |
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| Author:
| Jernigan, Daniel Keith |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7864-6532-3 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2012 |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $39.95USD $4.00 |
Book Description:
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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 and fully modernist in the 80s and 90s. This pattern also makes sense of Stoppard's recent and uncharacteristic foray into dramatic realism. The playwright seems to embrace what he sees as the more straightforward rhetorical advantages of literary realism.
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 and fully modernist in the 80s and 90s. This pattern also makes sense of Stoppard's recent and uncharacteristic foray into dramatic realism. The playwright seems to embrace what he sees as the more straightforward rhetorical advantages of literary realism.