Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens - The Performance of Modern Consciousness

Informationen zum Autor Sara J. Ford Klappentext 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 models of artistic expression.This book shows how Stein and Stevens provide powerful examples of this modern attempt to stage the new subject. Zusammenfassung This volume traces the presence of the theatre, both literally and metaphorically, in the plays and poetry of Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceChapter I: Consciousness Ungrounded: William James and Modernist ExpressionChapter II: Relationships in a Landscape: Stein's Operas and Plays and the Investigation into Modern ConsciousnessChapter III: Language as a Blind Glass: Artistic Expression as Performance in Stein's Tender ButtonsChapter IV: Stevens' Verse Plays: The Drama of the MindChapter V: Willful Illusions: Stevens' Poetry and the Performance of Poetic ConsciousnessNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Sara J. Ford, Ford Sara J.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.2002
• EAN: 9780415939447
• ISBN: 978-0-415-93944-7
• No. of pages: 146
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Biography, Literature and Literary studies