Reading Gertrude Stein : Body, Text, Gnosis /
Ruddick, Lisa
Reading Gertrude Stein : Body, Text, Gnosis / Lisa Ruddick. - 1 online resource (288 p.) - Reading Women Writing .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Melanctha": The Costs of Mind-Wandering -- 2. The Making of Americans: Modernism and Patricide -- 3. G.M.P. and Others: South to the Mother -- 4. Tender Buttons: Woman and Gnosis -- Conclusion: Modernism and Sacrifice -- Bibliography -- Index
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Reading Gertrude Stein traces the evolution of the mind and art of Gertrude Stein from Three Lives through The Making of Americans to Tender Buttons. In a series of close readings, Lisa Ruddick shows how Stein, whom she regards as the first truly modern writer in English, absorbed the influence of several of the major thinkers of her day (particularly William James and Freud), and then developed unique perspectives of her own original language and culture.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501718595
10.7591/9781501718595 doi
Women and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Gender Studies.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.
PS3537.T323 / Z8213 1990
818/.5209
Reading Gertrude Stein : Body, Text, Gnosis / Lisa Ruddick. - 1 online resource (288 p.) - Reading Women Writing .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Melanctha": The Costs of Mind-Wandering -- 2. The Making of Americans: Modernism and Patricide -- 3. G.M.P. and Others: South to the Mother -- 4. Tender Buttons: Woman and Gnosis -- Conclusion: Modernism and Sacrifice -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Reading Gertrude Stein traces the evolution of the mind and art of Gertrude Stein from Three Lives through The Making of Americans to Tender Buttons. In a series of close readings, Lisa Ruddick shows how Stein, whom she regards as the first truly modern writer in English, absorbed the influence of several of the major thinkers of her day (particularly William James and Freud), and then developed unique perspectives of her own original language and culture.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501718595
10.7591/9781501718595 doi
Women and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Gender Studies.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.
PS3537.T323 / Z8213 1990
818/.5209