Gertrude Stein

The Routledge introduction to American postmodernism

by Wagner-Martin, Linda

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The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors but also those that are arguably unconventional, renowned scholar LindaWagner-Mart…

With an historical context that attempts to delineate the problematic relationship between autobiography as an androcentric discourse and female autobiographers who have traditionally been circumscribed by that discourse (both in matters of identity and authorship), my thesis is…

Nella Larsen, Gertrude Stein, and H.D. address issues of transidentification and multiplicity in their work, rejecting appropriated female identity common within American literature. This study includes Larsen's Passing (1929) and Quicksand (1928), Stein's Three Lives (1909), an…

In the early twentieth century, critics accused women writing their personal experiences of being overly “sentimental.” Many women poets dissociated themselves from such accusations by composing impersonal poetry, yet many still wrote about the self through poetic experimentatio…