Reading Gertrude Stein
, by Ruddick, Lisa ColeNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780801423642 | 0801423643
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 7/1/1990
Ruddick's interpretative study of Gertrude Stein breaks new ground in both Stein studies and poststructural theory, remaining accessible while rejecting neither indeterminate polysemy nor the thematic unity of 'idea.'. . . Through valuable interpretations of the major early Stein texts ('Melanctha,' The Making of Americans, G.M.P., and Tender Buttons), Ruddick details the 'serial acts of self-definition' of the modernist self in relation to William James, Freud, and the Bible. . . . Ruddick is authoritative in dealing with Stein's work, feminist theory, and the cultural phenomenon of modernism.-Choice