Last Operas and Plays by Gertrude Stein
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 at the heart of her work.
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 MarrancaAmerican Literature
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. She was the author of many books, including The Making of Americans, Geography and Plays, Tender Buttons, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and How To Write.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801849855 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801849853 |
| Title | Last Operas and Plays |
| Author | Gertrude Stein |
| Series | Paj Books |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 1995-07-17 |
| Number of pages | 536 |
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