... in the women’s college thus turns on a persistent slippage between the literary aesthetic of Jamesian fiction and exercises in international speech education. This pedagogy also shapes the formal and thematic choices made by James’s readers turned novelists: Gertrude Stein’s QED, McCarthy’s Birds of America...

... they wanted. The second section considers Gertrude Stein’s attempt to develop a praxis of writing that would not be predicated on the assumption that we know what a sentence is. Following Hemingway in trying to write texts that would make their own process of composition legible, Stein conceives...

... Immanuel Kant consciousness experience Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Philosophical Investigations Samuel Beckett Virginia Woolf Gertrude Stein Only connect! —e. m. forster, Howards End (1910) In a recent book, A Singular Modernity, Fredric Jameson...

..., including interrelated works by Guillaume Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, and Blaise Cendrars, all of whom learned from the compositional experiments of Pablo Picasso’s cubism. Cendrars Blaise Delaunay Sonia Derrida Jacques Dos Passos John Kodak lyric machines mimesis names novel paragram...

... a series of unexpected parallels between the work of George Eliot and that of Gertrude Stein, it highlights the curious role of the frog in the emergence of this new characterological paradigm, a paradigm in which “realistic” character is said to inhere not in the production of consciousness...

...Gertrude Stein is usually considered to be producing verbal equivalents of Picasso's Cubist paintings in her difficult poetry. This chapter argues that Stein was much closer to Duchamp than to Picasso and that Duchamp's own alter ego Rrose Sélavy was largely based on Stein. A number of Stein's...