Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens : the performance of modern consciousness / / Sara J. Ford



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Ford Sara J. <1967-, > Visualizza persona
Titolo: Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens : the performance of modern consciousness / / Sara J. Ford Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (147 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/112
Soggetto topico: American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Modernism (Literature) - United States
Performing arts in literature
Consciousness in literature
Self in literature
Note generali: Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 conventional
Titolo autorizzato: Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-136-06754-X
0-203-61698-7
1-283-88561-1
1-136-06746-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910806297703321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Serie: Studies in major literary authors ; ; v. 14.