Stoppardian Drama

ISBN-13: 9783639167061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 124 str.

Zekiye Antakyalioglu

Opis

Stoppardian Drama: The approach towards a text through a postmodernistand counter-postmodernist consciousness brings intomind new methods and theories of criticism like NewHistoricism. This study, however, is not merelycommitted to an analysis of the postmodernist aspectsof (Czech-born British playwright) Tom Stoppardsdrama with a New Historicist stance; rather it aimsto exploit or make use of the New Historicist hintsto understand what Stoppard strives to do whilewriting his plays, because there are strikingparallelisms between Stoppards technique of creatinghis plays and the New Historicist critics method ofanalysing history and literary texts. In a wayStoppard plays the role of a new historicist whilewriting his brilliant comedies of ideas. This book,thus, aims to show the parallelism between the NewHistoricist approach and Stoppards playwriting by aclose reading of Travesties, Every Good Boy DeservesFavour, Arcadia. The three plays that have been studied in this bookare most likely to serve as reflections of the newhistoricist practice within a fictional frameworkand prove the very claim that Stoppard is a newhistoricist playwright.

O autorze

Received her PhD from Ankara University, Department of English
Language and Literature in 2004. Currently she is a faculty
member at Istanbul KültürUniversity, Department of Language and
Literature as an assistant professor.