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@article{ART001616778},
author={홍성주},
title={The Paradox of the Lights in Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2011},
volume={24},
number={3},
pages={197-225}

TY - JOUR
AU - 홍성주
TI - The Paradox of the Lights in Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2011
VL - 24
IS - 3
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 197
EP - 225
SN - 1226-3397
AB - Gertrude Stein’s Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights(1938) shares some of the core traits of the avant-garde drama, as the play reveals vigorous antagonism to traditional dramatic conventions, questioning the validity of traditional plot and character or of dramatic action. Stein’s anti-representational tendencies had led her to create a new dramatic form of almost plotless, paint-like, flattening, static, and simple stage performance. The old structure of dramatic fluctuations is replaced with the endless repetition of speeches that leads the audience to perceive their existence in the present moment. And the playwright, like her contemporary avant-garde practitioners, contours her character’s personality not as a unique whole but as a bundle of transient, multiple selves. The play contains the theme of Faust in a loose dramatic form. All the three main characters, including the protagonist Faustus, hold multiple personality and the audience is bound to be perplexed with their confusing identities. Doctor Faustus, the traditional transgressor representing the perennial human hunger for more knowledge, has invented the lights, the powerful symbol of modern technological advance. The lights, which were intended to enlighten human beings, however, paradoxically hasten and accelerate their isolation both from nature and among themselves. Any attempts in the play to produce harmonious duets and choruses turn into strange cacophonies, and what’s left are seemingly disparate monologues repeating themselves silently, only to intensify human alienation under the lights. Through the play Stein epitomizes her obsessive fear of the age of technology as did many of the avant-garde in her time.
KW - Gertrude Stein;Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights;avant-garde drama;anti-art;alienation
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홍성주. (2011). The Paradox of the Lights in Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights. Journal of Modern English Drama, 24(3), 197-225.

홍성주. 2011, "The Paradox of the Lights in Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.24, no.3 pp.197-225.

홍성주 "The Paradox of the Lights in Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights" Journal of Modern English Drama 24.3 pp.197-225 (2011) : 197.

홍성주. The Paradox of the Lights in Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights. 2011; 24(3), 197-225.

홍성주. "The Paradox of the Lights in Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights" Journal of Modern English Drama 24, no.3 (2011) : 197-225.

홍성주. The Paradox of the Lights in Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights. Journal of Modern English Drama, 24(3), 197-225.

홍성주. The Paradox of the Lights in Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2011; 24(3) 197-225.

홍성주. The Paradox of the Lights in Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights. 2011; 24(3), 197-225.

홍성주. "The Paradox of the Lights in Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights" Journal of Modern English Drama 24, no.3 (2011) : 197-225.