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Author Ruddick, Lisa Cole, 1954-

Title Reading Gertrude Stein : body, text, gnosis / Lisa Ruddick
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 270 pages)
Series Reading women writing
Reading women writing.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Melanctha": The Costs of Mind-Wandering -- 2. The Making of Americans: Modernism and Patricide -- 3. G.M.P. and Others: South to the Mother -- 4. Tender Buttons: Woman and Gnosis -- Conclusion: Modernism and Sacrifice -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "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 to William James, Freud, and the Bible ... Ruddick is authoritative in dealing with Stein's work, feminist theory, and the cultural phenomenon of modernism."--Choice
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-265)
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Subject Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946. fast (OCoLC)fst00030233
Subject Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Women and literature.
United States.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501718595
1501718592