Gertrude Stein’s “Historic Drama” (1930)

This paper is an analysis of Gertrude Stein’s staging of the dialectic between the past and the present in her 1930 “Historic drama” trilogy published in Last Operas and Plays. A writer of the “continuous present,” Gertrude Stein presentifies the past which she renews by playing with the old traditi...

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Main Author: Emeline Jouve
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2018-07-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/6573