Daniel Keith Jernigan is an assistant professor of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the editor of Drama and the Postmodern: Assessing the Limits of Metatheatre and has published on Tom Stoppard and Caryl Churchill.

• Table of ContentsPreface      1. Introduction      2. Normalizing Magritte and Tumbling Philosophers      3. Modernist Diversions      4. Intermission: Night and Day      5. Normalizing Postmodern Science      6. Metahistorical Detectives      7. The Narrative Turn: Re-innovating the Traditional in The Coast of Utopia      Encore: Rock ’n’ Roll      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index

“Jernigan’s analyses are first rate and his scholarship is solid. His prose exudes the confidence of a man prepared to argue his case with gusto that welcomes counterpoint. A welcome addition”—Comparative Drama.