Gertrude Stein and Wallace StevensThe Performance of Modern Consciousness
Sara J. Ford
ISBN: | 9781136067549 |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Published: | 6 December, 2012 |
Format: | eBook |
Gertrude Stein and Wallace StevensThe Performance of Modern Consciousness
Sara J. Ford
This book traces the presence of the theater, both as an abstract concept and a literal space, in the plays and poetry of Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens as it attempts to explain the parallel depictions of consciousness that are found in both authors' work. Literary modernists inherited a self that was fallible, a self that was seen as an ultimately failed gesture of expression, and throughout much modern literature is a sense of disillusionment with more traditional notions of selfhood. As
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