Object's details: Et in Arcadia fracta ego. Ponowoczesna entopia Toma Stopparda

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Et in Arcadia fracta ego. Ponowoczesna entopia Toma Stopparda
Creator:
Bartosiak, Mariusz
Contributor:
Uniwersytet Łódzki, Katedra Dramatu i Teatru, Instytut Kultury Współczesnej;
Ph.D. Lecturer at the Department of Drama and Theatre (Institute of Contemporary Culture, University of Łódź). Main research interests: theory of drama and theatre, cognitive anthropology of theatre and drama, comparative and phenomenological aesthetics, performative traditions and classical aesthetics of India and Japan. Co-edited (with Małgorzata Leyko) Kulturowe konteksty dramatu współczesnego (Cultural context of contemporary drama), Kraków 2008. Author of two monographs: Autopoetyka dramatu (Autopoetics of drama), Łódź 2013; Za pośrednictwem osób działających. Preliminaria kognitywnej antropologii teatru (By means of acting persons. Preliminaries of a cognitive anthropology of theatre), Łódź 2013.
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The paper presents a complex analysis of “Arcadia” by Tom Stoppard as an example of the postmodern artistic strategy that reinterprets traditional myth and themes within the context of dynamical changes in the cultural discourse of the last few decades. At the same time, it applies theories of contemporary natural sciences in the construction of characters, scenery and dramatic plot. The paper argues that such artistic strategy aims at the topoi koinoi of the anthropologically conceived culture and technologically oriented civilization. The analysis of Stoppard’s drama is set within two contexts: 1) the historical bifurcations of ancient (Theocritus, Virgil) and modern (Phillip Sidney, Nicolas Poussin) interpretations of the Arcadian myth; 2) the basic notions of chaos theory that are suggested in the dialogues and, at the same time, are applied in the construction of dramatic plot and its representation (bifurcation, attractor). The notion of entopia (‘in-place’), as opposed to the pair of utopia and dystopia, which are usually connected with interpretations of the myth of Arcadia as a desirable or undesirable ‘no-place’, refers to the ‘Arcadian’ aspects and possibilities of living, and especially to the acting here and now. In this respect, the paper argues that Stoppard’s “Arcadia” provides a mental space for the recognition of anthropological and axiological (performative) determinants of contemporary ‘Arcadian’ entopia.
Object availability:
free access
Date:
2015.01.13;
2014
Type:
Article
Language:
Polish
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Relation:
"Collectanea Philologica";17 (2014)
Subject:
Arcadia;
dramatic attractor;
entopia;
third culture;
Tom Stoppard
Identifier:
1733-0319;
http://hdl.handle.net/11089/6116
Data provider:
Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

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