Tom Stoppard: Bucking the Postmodern

Synopsis

While Much Of Tom Stoppard's Early Work 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-- Introduction -- Normalizing Magritte And Tumbling Philosophers -- Modern Diversions -- Intermission: Night And Day -- Normalizing Postmodern Science -- Metahistorical Detectives -- The Narrative Turn: Re-innovating The Traditional In The Coast Of Utopia -- Encore: Rock 'n' Roll. Daniel Keith Jernigan. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.