{"product_id":"tom-stoppard-bucking-the-postmodern-9780786465323","title":"Tom Stoppard: Bucking the Postmodern","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Daniel Keith Jernigan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Tom Stoppard is justly famous for his innovative theatrical techniques. Daniel Jernigan argues that while much of Tom Stoppard's early work (\u003ci\u003eRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Real Inspector Hound\u003c\/i\u003e, for instance) is postmodern, the remainder of his career essentially tracks backward from there--becoming \"late modernist\" in the 1970s (\u003ci\u003eTravesties\u003c\/i\u003e) and fully modernist in the 80s and 90s (\u003ci\u003eThe Real Thing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eArcadia\u003c\/i\u003e). This pattern also makes sense of Stoppard's recent and uncharacteristic foray into dramatic realism with \u003ci\u003eThe Coast of Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e (2002) and \u003ci\u003eRock 'n' Roll\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), at which point the playwright seems to embrace the more straightforward rhetorical advantages of literary realism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47598870495383,"sku":"9780786465323","price":3711.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780786465323.webp?v=1775002321","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/tom-stoppard-bucking-the-postmodern-9780786465323","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}