The Composition of Sense in Gertrude Stein's Landscape Writing

by Linda Voris

Book Overview

This book offers a bold critical method for reading Gertrude Stein's work on its own terms by forgoing conventional explanation and adopting Stein's radical approach to meaning and knowledge. Inspired by the immanence of landscape, both of Provence where she travelled in the 1920s and the spatial relations of landscape painting, Stein presents a new model of meaning whereby making sense is an activity distributed in a text and across successive texts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319320637
• ISBN13: 9783319320632
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"