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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.

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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. American Literature

Table of Contents
Contents: Yes Is for a Very Young Man * The Mother of Us All * Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights * A Play of Pounds * A Manoir * Short Sentences * Four Saints in Three Acts * Photography * Also includes the essay "Plays"

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/07/1995
      ISBN13: 9780801849855, 978-0801849855
      ISBN10: 0801849853

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      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. American Literature

      Table of Contents
      Contents: Yes Is for a Very Young Man * The Mother of Us All * Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights * A Play of Pounds * A Manoir * Short Sentences * Four Saints in Three Acts * Photography * Also includes the essay "Plays"

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