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...Amy Moorman Robbins This volume is the exciting beginning of new inquiries into the material locus of Stein’s creativity, and though time and space do not permit an exhaustive discussion of all of the essays included in Gertrude Stein in Europe , suffice it to say that taken together they serve...

...Matthew Sandler This paper poses the work of Gertrude Stein as a challenge to contemporary scholarship centered on theories of failure. Demonstrating that Stein’s notion of failure as a precondition for success derived from nineteenth-century selfhelp books, I follow her work with this paradox from...

...Paul Stephens Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Paul Stephens “Reading at It”: Gertrude Stein, Information Overload, and the Makings of Americanitis Paul Stephens There is no grammar in opposition but there is if there is omni- present successful intermediation...

...Liesl M. Olson HI Gertrude Stein, William James, and Habit in the Shadow of War Liesl M . Olson Sow an action & you reap a habit; sow a habit & you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny. —William...

...Omri Moses Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Gertrude Stein’s Lively Habits Gertrude Stein’s Lively Habits Omri Moses As the writer of Three Lives, Gertrude Stein tends to be excited by the material other novelists discard. Avoiding craftsmanlike values as well...

... literalism.” She writes: “This project is an attempt to alter the currently received history of twentieth-century American poetry by showing that Stein and (Riding) Jackson have been, and continue to be, misunderstood as postmodernists avant la lettre” (2).The book seeks to shatter all conciliation...

... beliefs and principles grounded in both an individual and social past? Through an extensive engagement with three modernist writers—Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Eliot—Moses constructs an alternative approach to the concept of character, one based on an openness to circumstances and social...

...Stephen Schryer Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo , by Chodat Robert , Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2008 . 254 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Postskeptical Criticism Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence...

... experience of the commonplace. To explore how this has been variously attempted, Olson devotes the next four chapters to four representative modernists: Joyce (Ulysses), Woolf (principally Mrs. Dal- 721 Brooke Horvath loway), Gertrude Stein (her World War II work, in particular Mrs. Reynolds...

... studies joins, complements, and builds on recent works such as Jane Gallop’s The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time, Robert Chodat’s Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo, and Andrew Goldstone’s Fictions of Autonomy: Modernism from Wilde...

... in representing ecological conditions began to merge with an ethical investment in caring about the state of the environment. Cage’s silent piece, 4′33″ , serves as Schuster’s paradigmatic case study of this shift. He begins by noting how the piece continues Moore’s, Stein’s, and blues music’s efforts to move...

... of contemporary American writers to turn their attention to France. A body of work initially dominated by cultural historians, an­ thropologists, sociologists, and journalists (for example, Richard Bern­ stein, Robert Daley, Richard Kuisel, Jean-Philippe Mathy) has of late increasingly included...

...) and a reading of three key modernist authors (Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, and Gertrude Stein). The latter three chapters identify rhetorical figures operating in select works: “epanorthosis” in Beckett’s Molloy , Malone Dies , and The Unnamable ; “hyperbole” in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu...

... Stein, and Ralph Ellison); other well-known writers rarely associated with modernism (such as Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and George Schuyler); and a fascinating group of less familiar authors (including poet and lawyer Charles Reznikoff). A coda, presented in the form of a legal brief on behalf...

...) that she needed a good deal of wine to mention her name to Angus Davidson in 1937 (Blondel 434). Another modernist writer with whom Butts had some affinities where interrogation is concerned is Gertrude Stein, who was every bit as possessed by the need to theorize the act...

...Clint Wilson, III All told, the dead bodies populating The Modernist Corpse challenge even the act of reading. In her closing reflection on Tender Buttons , Edwards considers how Stein’s prose famously forces readers to face the porous boundary between human and nonhuman by way of our...

... of a sort, they are disjointed ones, filled with hints, echoes, innuendoes, and black holes. Stylistically, they seem inspired by Gertrude Stein, evoking the plot of language more than a plot of character and event; one might say they try to recreate Browning’s “My Last Duchess” in the manner...

.... “‘Postmodern Blackness’: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and the End of History.” 44.2 (1998): 242-60 116 INDEX Davis, Phoebe Stein. “Subjectivity and the Aesthetics of National Identity in Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas...

... at the figure without whom no account of women and genius could be complete, Gertrude Stein. Stein’s professions of her own inhabitation of the category as an artistic innovator remains, after all, legendary. For contemporary critics, however, such pro- fessions tend more often to be read in relation...

... and Power: The American Space Program as Postmodern Narrative . Athens : University of Georgia Press . Baudrillard Jean . 1983 . Simulations . Los Angeles : Semiotext(e) . Becker Paula Stein Alan J. 2011 . The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair and Its Legacy...