Gertrude Stein, Modernism, and the problem of "genius" /

"This book examines the centrality and the specificity of the idea of "genius" to Stein's work in particular and to the aesthetic ideals and contradictory intellectual affiliations of high modernism in general. Through a chronological reading, it maps Stein's move from an ea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Will, Barbara
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2000.
Temas:
Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946 > Criticism and interpretation.
Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946 > Critique et interprétation.
Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946
Stein, Gertrude.
Genius in literature.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
American Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
Génie (Aptitude) dans la littérature.
Modernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Genius in literature
Modernism (Literature)
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"This book examines the centrality and the specificity of the idea of "genius" to Stein's work in particular and to the aesthetic ideals and contradictory intellectual affiliations of high modernism in general. Through a chronological reading, it maps Stein's move from an early investment in an essential and essentializing notion of "genius" to her later use of the term to describe an anti-essentialist, democratic textual process. It considers how this revisionary idea of "genius" evolved out of Stein's complex identification of herself as Jewish, queer and American. And it ends with Stein's seemingly paradoxical decision to call a text about being a genius in America, Everybody's Autobiography."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 180 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-175) and index.
ISBN:0585441847
9780585441849
9780748699346
0748699341

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