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  • © 1993

Gertrude Stein

Authors:

  1. Jane Palatini Bowers
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Part of the book series: Women Writers (WW)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jane Palatini Bowers
    Pages 1-3

  3. The Half That Made Her: 1874–1909

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    Pages 4-33

  5. Beyond Narrative: The Making of Americans

    • Jane Palatini Bowers
    Pages 63-82

  7. Deconstructing Genre: Conversation Plays

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    Pages 106-120

  8. Reconstructing Genre: Lang-scapes and Schizologues

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    Pages 121-152

  9. Epilogue

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    Pages 153-156

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 157-174
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About this book

In lucid and engaging prose, Jane Palatini Bowers introduces readers to Gertrude Stein's most difficult works, texts in which Stein pushes against the constraints imposed by the conventions of genre, questions the rules that confine language within pre-ordained structures, and invents a kind of 'process poetics'. Stein's repeated attempts to address through her writing the problems and paradoxes of language and literary creation challenge readers in a uniquely conscious and provocative way. Bower's account of Stein's work will be welcomed by readers who wish to meet that challenge.
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