Search Results for melanctha

... a challenge to some of the racist orthodoxies of her time. I will establish in some detail how Stein put ideas inspired by Dar- win into operation in her early fiction, specifically in “Melanctha,” the longest and most complicated story in Three Lives. There she shows that long-standing habits...

... of habit in “Melanctha,” Moses reveals how Stein mobilizes William James’s notion of “plasticity” and Darwin’s fundamental principle of biological adaptability to insist on the possibility of an endless number of minute variations that take place within an individual across time and in response to ever...

... . Blackmer Corinne E. 1993 . “ African Masks and the Arts of Passing in Gertrude Stein’s ‘Melanctha’ and Nella Larsen’s Passing .” Journal of the History of Sexuality 4 , no. 2 : 230 – 63 . Boltanski Luc Chiapello Eve 2007 . The New Spirit of Capitalism . New York : Verso...

...), she did rely on habits as a way to reveal the motivations and energies of her characters. For instance, Jeff Campbell, the young African-American doctor in Stein’s story “Melanc- tha,” represents a certain kind of pragmatic habituation and steadiness at odds, in the end, with Melanctha’s...

... dedication to character psychology—due in large part to her subsequent devotion to the theories of Otto Weininger—has been much lamented by critics.8 But while such criticism is justified as it pertains to Stein’s understanding of sexuality and race, especially her depiction of Melanctha,9 critics...

... think of Gertrude Stein’s Melanctha and her incessant repetitions and just as incessant “blueness,” “wandering” but never getting “really married.” Or we might think of Dorothy Parker’s Hazel and the “misty melancholies” that in the end give rise to her series of lovers and failed suicide attempt. 16...

... adopted a Nietzschean view of power, exemplified and articulated through her famous use of repetition against teleology in works like “Melanctha.” As McCann tells it, Stein’s cubist belief in the incommensurability of multiple perspectives culminated in a libertarian, anti-Progressive...