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Last Operas and Plays
Gertrude Stein
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Description for Last Operas and Plays
Paperback. This volume contains a collection of Stein's works. It also includes her essay "Plays", in which she reflects on the experience in the theatre of seeing and hearing, and on emotion and time. She envisioned a new dramaturgy, beginning with the pictorial conception of a play as a landscape. Series: PAJ Books. Num Pages: 536 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
In the more than 75 plays Gertrude Stein wrote between 1913 and 1946, she envisioned a new dramaturgy, beginning with the pictorial conception of a play as a landscape. She drew into her plays the daily flow of life around her - including the natural world - and turned cities, villages, parts of the dramatic structure, and even her own friends into characters. She made punctuation and typography part of her compositional style and chose words for their joyful impact as sound and wordplay. For Stein, the writing process itself was always important in developing the continuous present ... Read more
In the more than 75 plays Gertrude Stein wrote between 1913 and 1946, she envisioned a new dramaturgy, beginning with the pictorial conception of a play as a landscape. She drew into her plays the daily flow of life around her - including the natural world - and turned cities, villages, parts of the dramatic structure, and even her own friends into characters. She made punctuation and typography part of her compositional style and chose words for their joyful impact as sound and wordplay. For Stein, the writing process itself was always important in developing the continuous present ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
536
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Series
PAJ Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801849855
SKU
V9780801849855
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for Last Operas and Plays
To Carl Van Vechten's 1949 selection of some of Stein's most important and most produced plays, this reprint adds the essay Plays, in which Stein elaborates her notion of the play as a landscape and, and a new introduction by Bonnie Marranca.
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