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...JOHN CARLOS ROWE Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003 2003 Works Cited Brinnin , John Malcolm . The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World . Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1987 . Broeck , Sabine . “Gertrude Stein’s ‘Melanctha’ in den Diskursen zur ‘Natur der Frau’.” Amerika Studien...

...Catherine Fung Monique Truong's 2003 novel The Book of Salt is a fictionalized story of a gay Vietnamese chef who, while working in the household of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, briefly meets Paul Robeson and Ho Chi Minh. Rather than assume that the inclusion of historical persons...

...Julianne Werlin Jordan Alexander Stein , When Novels Were Books ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard UP , 2020 ), pp. 272 , hardcover, $41.00 . Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 It is not easy to write a new theory of the rise of the novel. Almost every aspect of eighteenth...

... of cosrnopoiitanisrn (and a contemporary "cosmopolitics") attentive to both its vision of world citizenship and its troublesome associations with universalism, the nation, and empire. Jessica Berman's energetic study of Henry James, Proust, Woolf, and Stein brings to- gether these trends and these highest...

... writers such as Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, Jean Toomer, and F. Scott Fitzgerald—who take center stage here—to be reread in new ways. For Beeston, the way in which these writers' engagement with the visual marks a deeper and potentially more interesting crisis within modernism is paramount, a crisis...

... that directly inform early modernist writers such as Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Eliot. In the process, Moses offers an original and groundbreaking diagnostic of the psychic life of modernism that opens up the boundaries of subjectivity to its affective, relational, and ethical outside—thereby making...

... of the study, as well as its limitations, derive from the acuity of this central proposition, which provides for a thoughtful consideration of canonical modern- ist figures—literary and cinematic—including Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Rhys, and John Dos Passos. Refusing...

..., nevertheless draws on them in his novel of engineered pleasure, Brave New World . The opening chapters on Joyce and Stein offer excellent introductions to the difficulties these authors present. (It is easy to picture Frost in the classroom, convincing resistant undergraduates to relish the pleasures...

... (181). It is no accident that the journalists and photographers who gather to cover the murder also are the ones to solve it, Burrows argues, because they have to a significant degree produced the crime as well. It may come as a surprise that in his conclusion Burrows calls on Gertrude Stein...

..., as if to fulfill David Wood’s prediction in 1989 that “our century long ‘linguistic turn’ will be followed by a spiralling return to time as the focus and horizon of all our thought and experience” (2001, xxxv). In the readings that follow of Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage, Gertrude Stein’s...

... Stein, and Zora Neale Hurston. The prologue argues that theories of tragedy and comedy "always imply judgments about how social relations work or should work in the world," that such theories are always constructed in the service of an ideological position (1).Taylor sketches...

... of the desirability, even necessity, of literary structures of repetition, blockage, reduction, withdrawal, and blankness would, I think, have helped complete the account of modernist fiction here. In a rich discussion of Gertrude Stein, for instance, Stein's much-commented-upon use of repetition in The Making...

... Gaedtke to comment more directly on how these writers are related to more canonical moderns. Kavan is clearly influenced by Franz Kafka, as Gaedtke points out, but there is only the barest discussion of Kafka's works. Gertrude Stein is mentioned in passing, but Stein's experiments with language have often...

... was created out of a vast expansion of federal powers in the early twentieth century. But irony is no impediment to this strain of political desire. Writers as disparate as Richard Wright, Gertrude Stein, and Don DeLillo, McCann argues, all look to the figure of the chief executive to try to work...

..., Gertrude Stein, and Ford Madox Ford develops in the prewar world, but is amplified and intensified by the war. Sherry disagrees, assert- ing instead that modernism, as defined by a literary exploration of the impact of modernity, emerges only after and because of the collapse of logic in the Great...

... Beautiful Circuits pursues opens the medium up too much for the analysis’s own good. After all, I doubt that Goble would want to commit to the view that his own carefully chosen categories and representations, from the writ- ings of Gertrude Stein and James Weldon Johnson to the paintings of Charles...