The Composition of Sense in Gertrude Stein´s Landscape Writing
Linda Voris
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Description for The Composition of Sense in Gertrude Stein´s Landscape Writing
Hardback. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478.
This book offers a bold critical method for reading Gertrude Stein's work on its own terms by forgoing conventional explanation and adopting Stein's radical approach to meaning and knowledge. Inspired by the immanence of landscape, both of Provence where she travelled in the 1920s and the spatial relations of landscape painting, Stein presents a new model of meaning whereby making sense is an activity distributed in a text and across successive texts. From love poetry, to plays and portraiture, Linda Voris offers close readings of Stein's most anthologized and less known writing in a case study of a new method ... Read more
This book offers a bold critical method for reading Gertrude Stein's work on its own terms by forgoing conventional explanation and adopting Stein's radical approach to meaning and knowledge. Inspired by the immanence of landscape, both of Provence where she travelled in the 1920s and the spatial relations of landscape painting, Stein presents a new model of meaning whereby making sense is an activity distributed in a text and across successive texts. From love poetry, to plays and portraiture, Linda Voris offers close readings of Stein's most anthologized and less known writing in a case study of a new method ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Condition
New
Weight
477g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319320632
SKU
V9783319320632
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Linda Voris
Linda Voris is Associate Professor of Literature at American University, Washington, D.C., USA. Her publications have appeared in Modernism/modernity, Studies in American Fiction, and American Women Poets in the 21st-Century.
Reviews for The Composition of Sense in Gertrude Stein´s Landscape Writing
Linda Voris's The Composition of Sense in Gertrude Stein's Landscape Writing is, quite simply, a game-changer for Stein scholarship. This important monograph proposes a radical new critical approach to Stein's work ... . (Georgina Nugent-Folan, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 37 (2), 2018)