Stoppard’s chaomedic wit
With Arcadia Stoppard suggests that post-modernism, fragmentation and chaos are reclaimed if not by order, at least by determinism. In Chaos theory, Stoppard finds the oxymoronic and paradoxical vision of a world which becomes disorganized as a system but organized as chaos. The Stoppardian new prob...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/2477 |
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| Summary: | With Arcadia Stoppard suggests that post-modernism, fragmentation and chaos are reclaimed if not by order, at least by determinism. In Chaos theory, Stoppard finds the oxymoronic and paradoxical vision of a world which becomes disorganized as a system but organized as chaos. The Stoppardian new problem play elects complexity as its thesis and conveys a message which is both conservative and iconoclastic: I will examine here, in the wake of other critics, how paradox, which is the foundation stone of Chaos mathematics, shapes all the components of the play—down to Stoppard’s epigrammatic style which, in my opinion, is both Newtonian and chaotic and becomes in turn a metaphor for chaos theory. |
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| ISSN: | 1272-3819 1969-6302 |