A vocabulary of thinking : Gertrude Stein and contemporary North American women's innovative writing / Deborah M. Mix.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mix, Deborah M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Literature, Experimental--United States--History and criticism.

Literature, Experimental.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Feminism and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Feminism and literature.

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946--Criticism and interpretation.

Stein, Gertrude.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Gertrude Stein and contemporary North American women's innovative writing

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University Of Iowa Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using experimental style as a framework for close readings of writings produced by late twentieth-century North American women, Deborah Mix places Gertrude Stein at the center of a feminist and multicultural account of twentieth-century innovative writing. Her meticulously argued work maps literary affiliations that connect Stein to the work of Harryette Mullen, Daphne Marlatt, Betsy Warland, Lyn Hejinian, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

Contents:

Starting with Stein : three vocabularies of thinking

Domestic economies : Harryette Mullen's Trimmongs and S*PeRM**K*T

Re-versing the lyric : Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland's Double negative

Multirelational authobiography : Lyn Heijinian's My life

Found in retranslation : Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE

Epilogue : returning to Stein.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-208) and index.

ISBN:

9781587297403

158729740X

OCLC:

606050529