Gertrude Stein's "Historical" Living.
While Gertrude Stein's formal innovations are often considered as attempts to "transcend history," this article argues that Stein worked through history in order to develop writing practices that could reclaim the past in service to an indefinite future. Toward this goal, Stein's early historical te...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 22 - 44 |
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Spring2008
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