The fractured stage: Gertrude Stein's influence on American avant-garde directing as seen in four productions of "Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights".
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Title
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The fractured stage: Gertrude Stein's influence on American avant-garde directing as seen in four productions of "Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights".
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Identifier
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AAI9820576
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identifier
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9820576
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Creator
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Rosten, Bevya.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Jane Palatini Bowers
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Date
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1998
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Theater | American Studies | Women's Studies | Literature, American
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Abstract
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Four seminal directors in the alternative American theatre, each representing a different generation of experimentation, have acknowledged parallels between their experiments with stage space and Gertrude Stein's writing experiments, and have claimed Stein as a key source for understanding their creative undertakings. Each in turn has also directed a production of her text for theatre, Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights. This study explores the contributions of these directors to the contemporary theatre from the focused perspective of Stein's idiosyncratic creativity through first-hand interviews and a close analysis of their methodologies and aesthetics. By comparing their respective productions of Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights, a better understanding of their sometimes hermetic vocabularies, of Gertrude Stein's writing techniques, and of the shift on the American avant-garde stage from modernism to post-modernism, are all brought into sharper focus.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
