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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Watson, Dana Cairns, 1966- Gertrude Stein and the essence of what happens. Nashville [Tenn.] : Vanderbilt University Press, 2005 (OCoLC)607353976 |
Named Person: | Gertrude Stein; Gertrude Stein; Gertrude Stein; Gertrude Stein |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dana Cairns Watson |
ISBN: | 0826514626 9780826514622 0826514634 9780826514639 |
OCLC Number: | 53967061 |
Description: | x, 258 pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Talking and listening in Stein's early life and works -- Modifying the mind : William James and Tender Buttons -- Conversational relations in Geography and Plays -- Talk in the thirties : in the present, with the past -- Talking boundaries into thresholds in Ida -- Expressing a state of mind : conversation, politics and individuality in Mrs. Reynolds and Brewsie and Willie. |
Responsibility: | Dana Cairns Watson. |
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"Through a series of close readings, Dana Cairns Watson argues convincingly for the centrality of conversation in Gertrude Stein's work. More importantly, Watson places Stein's interest in and use of conversation in the context of intellectual and literary history and concludes that Stein models, advocates, and potentially instigates a political and social reshaping of American character and thought. Thus, Watson's book is a timely corrective to claims that Stein was at best an apolitical naif and at worst a fascist sympathizer." - Jane P. Bowers, Ph.D. Director of Academic Affairs CUNY Honors College: University Scholars Program" Read more...

