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Reading Gertrude Stein
Lisa Cole Ruddick
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Description for Reading Gertrude Stein
Paperback. Series: Reading Women Writing. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 457.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Reading Women Writing
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801499579
SKU
V9780801499579
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99-15
About Lisa Cole Ruddick
Lisa Ruddick is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago.
Reviews for Reading Gertrude Stein
Ruddick's interpretative study of Gertrude Stein breaks new ground in both Stein studies and poststructural theory, remaining accessible while rejecting neither indeterminate polysemy nor the thematic unity of 'idea.'... Through valuable interpretations of the major early Stein texts ('Melanctha,' The Making of Americans, G.M.P., and Tender Buttons), Ruddick details the 'serial acts of self-definition' of the modernist self in relation ... Read more