Gertrude Stein: Woman Without Qualities

ISBN-13: 9780754652342 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 212 str.

G. F. Mitrano

Opis

Argues that Gertrude Stein's particular take on modernity has special relevance. This book traces Stein's modernist story of transformation from a nineteenth-century American woman to the disquieting muse of avant-garde culture portrayed in Picasso's famous portrait.

Recenzje

'In this moving and original work, G. F. Mitrano uses a wide range of critical, theoretical, biographical and historical sources and discourses to show us that Gertrude Stein, whom we think of as the "difficult," "hermetic," "private" writer of the most highly experimental oeuvre in English, was always engaged, from the beginning of her career, in "becoming-public." ... Mitrano demonstrates the crucial roles of Stein’s life as an art collector, of her involvement in twentieth-century aesthetic and political communities, and of her defining connection to Americanness, in producing a unique understanding of the relationship, in contemporary culture, between aesthetics and sociality. ... Mitrano’s work is important not just to Stein studies but to our current understanding of the relations among gender, aesthetics, politics, and community.' Marianne DeKoven, Rutgers University, USA 'This is a fascinating book for scholars of modern literature.Highly recommended.' Choice ’...a conscientious study [...] of value primarily to scholars of early modern art and literature who share its post-structuralist approach.’ Woman's Art Journal

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; The woman without qualities; Shame and the fathers: The Making of Americans; Mabel Dodge, patronage, and the velvet garment; The looks of modern culture; Picasso and paper; From song to image: Four Saints in Three Acts; The 'visitor': Lectures in America; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

G.F. Mitrano holds PhDs in American literature from Rutgers University and from the University of Rome. Her articles have appeared in Modern Language Studies, College Literature, The Explicator, Journal x, and Anglistica. She is a part-time faculty member at the University of Maryland - Europe.