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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782761503321

Autore

Mix Deborah M

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University Of Iowa Press, c2007

ISBN

1-58729-740-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Disciplina

810/.9/9287

Soggetti

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Literature, Experimental - United States - History and criticism

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

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

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.