“We will write it again”: subverted hermeneutics in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia

Arcadia can be read as a subverted detective story in which history is reinterpreted rather than deciphered. The sleuth is a ruthlessly ambitious scholar who distorts evidence so as to achieve his ends. Arcadia thus highlights the unreliability of textual meaning, appealing to the reader/spectator’s...

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Main Author: Aloysia Rousseau
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:http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/2450