Barbara Will

Gertrude Stein, Modernism, and the Problem of 'Genius'

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gertrude Stein often called herself a genius, but what did this term really mean to her? This book examines the centrality and the specificity of the idea of "genius" to Stein's work and to the aesthetic ideals and contradictory intellectual affiliations of high modernism in general. Through a chronological reading, it maps Stein's move from an early investment in an essential notion of "genius" to her later use of the term to describe an anti-essentialist, democratic process. Drawing upon a wide range of literary theory, cultural criticism and historical evidence, and offering new readings of previously unexamined texts by Stein, Barbara Will challenges received understandings of Stein's claims to "genius" and of modernist literary hermeticism by reconceptualizing the textual practice of this exemplary modernist writer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780748611980
• ISBN-10: 0748611983
• Artikelnr.: 21004061

Autorenporträt

Barbara Will

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations of Works by Gertrude Stein
Introduction Part I: Coming to Terms 1. In Search of a Subject: Knowledge
and Excess in Stein's Early Texts 2. Self-Naming, Self-Splitting: The
Making of a Modernist "Genius" in The Making of Americans and G.M.P. Part
II: Congenial Fictions 3. Masterpiecese of Yes: Talking and Listening in
"To Call It a Day" and "Forensics" 4. Genii Locorum: Expatriate Resolutions
in Useful Knowledge 5. From "Genius" to Celebrity: The Autobiography of
Alice B. Toklas and Everybody's Autobiography Coda: Warhol's Stein Selected
Bibliography Index