“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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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: | http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/2450 |