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Tom Stoppard´s Leopoldstadt (2020) as “Encyclopedia” of the Author´s Œuvre

KAČER, Tomáš

Basic information

Original name

Tom Stoppard´s Leopoldstadt (2020) as “Encyclopedia” of the Author´s Œuvre

Authors

KAČER, Tomáš

Edition

6th International Conference of English and American Studies, Silesian Studies in English – SILSE 2021, 9-10t September 2021, Institute of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava, 2021

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Presentations at conferences

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

References:

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Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Tom Stoppard; Leopoldstadt; history play

Abstract

In the original language

Tom Stoppard is one of the most accomplished contemporary British playwrights, whose career spans over half a century. His latest play, Leopoldstadt (2020), has been long-awaited, and the author has spoken about it as his last and final play several times. The presentation will introduce the concept of encyclopedic writing with various implications to literary analysis. Then, this approach will be applied to Leopoldstadt, ultimately identifying elements in the play that make is a summa of Stoppard’s distinctive playwriting style. Besides language humor (puns, witticisms, absurdity), intertextuality, meta-theatricality, and “comedy of ideas,” which have been a staple of Stoppard’s playwrighting, the presentation will also present Stoppard as an author of a specific type of the history play, tentatively called “a deliberative political-ideological history play.”

Links

MUNI/A/1446/2020, interní kód MU

Name: Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies

Investor: Masaryk University

Cite

KAČER, Tomáš. Tom Stoppard´s Leopoldstadt (2020) as “Encyclopedia” of the Author´s Œuvre. In 6th International Conference of English and American Studies, Silesian Studies in English – SILSE 2021, 9-10t September 2021, Institute of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava. 2021.

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KAČER, Tomáš. Tom Stoppard´s Leopoldstadt (2020) as “Encyclopedia” of the Author´s Œuvre. In \textit{6th International Conference of English and American Studies, Silesian Studies in English – SILSE 2021, 9-10t September 2021, Institute of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava}. 2021.

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