TY - BOOK ID - 78645148 TI - Unmaking The Making of Americans : Toward an Aesthetic Ontology PY - 2018 SN - 1438468016 9781438468013 9781438467993 PB - Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - Stein, Gertrude, KW - Staĭn, Gertruda, KW - Stein, Gertruda, KW - Dusman, Linda, KW - Aesthetics. KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78645148 AB - Arguing that Gertrude Stein's monumental novel The Making of Americans models a radically aesthetic relation to the world, E. L. McCallum demonstrates how the novel teaches us to read differently, unmaking our habits of reading. Each of the chapters works through close readings of Stein's text and a philosophical interlocutor to track a series of theoretical questions: what forms queer time, what are the limits of story, how do we feel emotion, how can we agree on a shared reality if interpretation and imagination intervene, and how do particular media shape how we convey this rich experience? The formally innovative agenda and epistemological drive of Stein's novel stages rich thought experiments that bear on questions that are central to some of the most vibrant conversations in literary studies today. In the midst of ongoing debates about the practices of reading, the difficulty of reading, and even the impossibility of reading, the moment has come to have a fuller critical engagement with this landmark novel. This book shows how. ER -