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Stein, Gertrude

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This book offers a bold critical method for reading Gertrude Stein’s work on its own terms by forgoing conventional explanation and adopting Stein’s radical approach to meaning and knowledge. Inspired by the immanence of landscape, both of Provence where she travelled in the 1920s and the spatial relations of landscape painting, Stein presents a new model of meaning whereby making sense is an activity distributed in a text and across successive texts. From love poetry, to plays and portraiture, Linda Voris offers close readings of Stein’s most anthologized and less known writing in a case study of a new method of interpretation. By practicing Stein’s innovative means of making sense, Voris reveals the excitement of her discoveries and the startling implications for knowledge, identity, and intimacy.

Poetry --- American literature --- Literature --- Amerindian literature --- literatuur --- poëzie --- Amerikaanse cultuur --- Stein, Gertrude --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States of America

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This book maps the history of literary celebrity from the early nineteenth century to the present, paying special attention to the authors’ crafting of their writerly self as well as the afterlife of their public image. Case studies are John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Eliza Cook, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, J.D. Salinger and Zadie Smith. Literary celebrity is part and parcel of modern literary culture, yet it continues to raise intriguing questions about the nature of authorship, writerly fame and the tension between authorial self-fashioning and public appropriation. This volume provides unique insights into the phenomenon.

Fiction --- Sociology of literature --- American literature --- English literature --- fantasy --- literatuur --- Amerikaanse cultuur --- Engelse literatuur --- Wilde, Oscar --- Salinger, J.D. --- Keats, John --- Smith, Zadie --- Cook, Eliza --- Stein, Gertrude --- Poe, Edgar Allan --- Melville, Herman --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- Great Britain --- Ireland --- United States of America