A Stylistics of Drama: With Special Focus on Stoppard’s Travesties

Tan (English language and literature, National U. of Singapore) explores how stylistic methods apply to drama texts, taking as an example Tom Stoppard’s 1975 play Travesties , which turns the discussion toward literary parody as an intertextual mode. He places stylistics in a historical and procedural framework, and considers ideological and procedural impasses that have stymied analysis. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.