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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In search of subject : knowledge and excess in Stein's early texts
  • Self-naming, self-splitting : the making of a modernist "genius" in the making of Americans and G.M.P.
  • "Masterpieces of yes" : talking and listening in "To call it a day" and "Forensics"
  • Genii locorum : expatriate resolutions in Useful knowledge
  • From "genius" to celebrity : The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and Everybody's autobiography
  • Coda : Warhol's Stein.

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