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Reading Gertrude Stein : Body, Text, Gnosis / Lisa Ruddick.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Reading Women WritingPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1991Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501718595
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 818/.5209 20
LOC classification:
  • PS3537.T323 Z8213 1990
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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