“This is not science. This is storytelling:” The Poetics of Science in Arcadia

After using catastrophe theory and quantum mechanics in his earlier texts Professional Foul and Hapgood, Stoppard borrows some of Arcadia’s key concepts from thermodynamics and chaos theory. This article explores the strong epistemological continuity of Stoppard’s references to science, which provid...

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Main Author: Liliane Campos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2011-12-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/2461
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