Real and Imaginary Spaces in Tom Stoppard’s Plays

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Real and Imaginary Spaces in Tom Stoppard’s Plays is written by Nevin Gürbüz-Blaich and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3111573060 (ISBN 10) and 9783111573069 (ISBN 13).

This study benefits from the terminology of geocriticism – a literary criticism that suggests an interdisciplinary approach to the exploration of literature in relation to space and place, and refers to the spatial theories of Lefebvre, Foucault, Bakhtin, Augé, and Certeau as well as to Issacharoff’s study of ‘dramatic space’. Proposing a multidisciplinary perspective, the book analyzes the mimetic and diegetic spaces in four of Tom Stoppard’s plays; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), Travesties (1974), Arcadia (1993), and Indian Ink (1995). Stoppard’s plays from the 1960s to the 2000s portray different spaces including urban spaces, cities, landscapes, rooms, and fictional sites, thus serving as exceptional textual sources in spatial literary studies.