| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 129 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in major literary authors ; v. 14 |
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Studies in major literary authors ; v. 14.
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| Contents |
Consciousness ungrounded : William James and modernist expression -- Relationships in a landscape : Stein's operas and plays and the investigation into modern consciousness -- Language as a blind glass : artistic expression as performance in Stein's Tender buttons -- Stevens' verse plays : the drama of the mind -- Willful illusions : Stevens' poetry and the performance of poetic consciousness |
| Summary |
This book traces the presence of the theater, both as an abstract concept and a literal space, in the plays and poetry of Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens as it attempts to explain the parallel depictions of consciousness that are found in both authors' work. Literary modernists inherited a self that was fallible, a self that was seen as an ultimately failed gesture of expression, and throughout much modern literature is a sense of disillusionment with more traditional notions of selfhood. As more conventional ways of thinking about consciousness became untenable, so too did conventional |
| Notes |
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-125) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 -- Knowledge -- Psychology
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Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Knowledge -- Psychology
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James, William, 1842-1910 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
James, William, 1842-1910 fast |
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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 fast |
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Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 fast |
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Stein, Gertrude. swd |
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Stevens, Wallace. swd |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States
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Performing arts in literature.
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Consciousness in literature.
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Self in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Consciousness in literature
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Modernism (Literature)
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Performing arts in literature
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Psychology
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Self in literature
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Bewusstsein Motiv
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136067464 |
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1136067469 |
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9780203616987 |
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0203616987 |
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1283885611 |
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9781283885614 |
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