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In Travesties, Tom Stoppard mixes realities with fictions, and repeatedly questions the true nature of reality. But, he doesn’t give any answers or clues for it. In the ending, there is no resolution to the conflicts which can be generally expected. Instead, new conflicts are brought forth, and readers/spectators become more and more confused. In short, Travesties well embodies ‘disorder’ or ‘uncertainty,’ one of the most prominent aspects in his works. In Travesties, a variety of texts are piled one on another, multifarious dramatic devices are mixed together, and new fictional realities are created. In addition, these multi-layered realities exist as the outward appearances regulated by settled pattern. Sometimes, because of the unreliability of the protagonist, Carr’s memory, identical words and phrases are reiterated, and ‘time-slips’ occur repeatedly, but, Stoppard creates new order and meaning from disorder. In Travesties, he provides the disorderly scattered fragments with extremely different contexts, and creates new realities and meanings, which is the central point of the work. In Travesties, dramatic actions are developed not according to the relation of cause and effect but to Carr’s unreliable memory, which illustrates that human lives are not logical, and that human histories are not exact. In short, Stoppard demonstrates that we, humans, aren’t directly related to the historical affairs which actually happened, but fettered to a kind of fictional history temporarily reconstructed based on the necessity of the present, and therefore we should lead a more active, creative life.

목차

I. 서론
 II. 텍스트간의 변형적 교류
 III. 사실과 허구간의 변형적 교류
 IV. 예술과 정치의 희화화
 V. 결론
 Works Cited
 Abstract

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저자

• 윤정용 [ Yoon, Jeongyong | 충북대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810