Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans: Repetition and the Emergence of Modernism: 61 (American University Studies Series 24: American Literature) - Hardcover

Moore, George B

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820426806 ISBN 13: 9780820426808

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1998

Synopsis

For Gertrude Stein, "The Making of Americans" was always her masterpiece. A novel of unparalleled scope and encyclopedic ambition, it is a family history that at once becomes an expose of the possibilities of modern art, language, and psychology. George Moore's study is the first to examine, in its entirety, the novel and its role in the development of Stein's aesthetic. Through a comprehensive analysis of her use of repetition, her theories of art and human character, and her changing relationship to writing itself, Moore argues convincingly for the psychological basis of Stein's theory of language, and the centrality of "The Making of Americans" to the development of Stein's modernism."

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About the Author:

The Author: George B. Moore received his Doctorate from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he currently teaches American Literature and Creative Writing. In addition to recent articles on Thomas Pynchon, Robert Steiner, Jose Emilio Pacheco and Jimmy Santiago Baca, his second collection of poems, "The Petroglyphs at Wedding Rocks and Other Poems," was published in 1997."

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0820426806
• ISBN 13: 9780820426808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 267