TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ruddick,Lisa
TI  - Reading Gertrude Stein: Body, Text, Gnosis 
T2  - Reading Women Writing
SN  - 9781501718595
AV  - PS3537.T323 Z8213 1990
U1  - 818/.5209 20
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501718595
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501718595
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501718595/original
ER  -