03226oam 2200709I 450 991045256040332120200520144314.00-203-61698-71-283-88561-11-136-06746-910.4324/9780203616987 (CKB)2550000000710330(EBL)1099403(OCoLC)823389490(SSID)ssj0000787044(PQKBManifestationID)11443363(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000787044(PQKBWorkID)10813242(PQKB)10564572(MiAaPQ)EBC1099403(Au-PeEL)EBL1099403(CaPaEBR)ebr10639141(CaONFJC)MIL419811(OCoLC)822561581(EXLCZ)99255000000071033020180706d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens the performance of modern consciousness /Sara J. FordNew York :Routledge,2002.1 online resource (147 p.)Studies in major literary authors : outstanding dissertations ;v. 14Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.).0-415-80362-4 0-415-93944-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Consciousness ungrounded : William James and modernist expression -- Relationships in a landscape : Stein's operas and plays and the investigation into modern consciousness -- Language as a blind glass : artistic expression as performance in Stein's Tender buttons -- Stevens' verse plays : the drama of the mind -- Willful illusions : Stevens' poetry and the performance of poetic consciousness.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 more conventional ways of thinking about consciousness became untenable, so too did conventionalStudies in major literary authors ;v. 14.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)United StatesPerforming arts in literatureConsciousness in literatureSelf in literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)Performing arts in literature.Consciousness in literature.Self in literature.810.9/112Ford Sara J.1967-,927469MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452560403321Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens2083891UNINA