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By Sara J. Ford

ISBN-10: 0415803624

ISBN-13: 9780415803625

ISBN-10: 0415939445

ISBN-13: 9780415939447

This e-book strains the presence of the theater, either as an summary thought and a literal house, within the performs and poetry of Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens because it makes an attempt to give an explanation for the parallel depictions of awareness which are present in either authors' paintings.
Literary modernists inherited a self that used to be fallible, a self that used to be noticeable as an finally failed gesture of expression, and all through a lot sleek literature is a feeling of disillusionment with extra conventional notions of selfhood. As extra traditional methods of brooding about realization turned untenable, so too did traditional versions of creative expression.This booklet indicates how Stein and Stevens offer strong examples of this contemporary try to level the hot subject.

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