Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens the performance of modern consciousness

Title:

Author:

Ford, Sara J., 1967-

Personal Author:

Ford, Sara J., 1967-

Publication Information:

New York : Routledge, 2002.

Physical Description:

xiii, 129 p.

Series:

Studies in major literary authors : outstanding dissertations ; v. 14

Studies in major literary authors ; v. 14.

General Note:

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.).

Contents:

Consciousness ungrounded : William James and modernist expression -- Relationships in a landscape : Stein's operas and plays and the investigation into modern consciousness -- Language as a blind glass : artistic expression as performance in Stein's Tender buttons -- Stevens' verse plays : the drama of the mind -- Willful illusions : Stevens' poetry and the performance of poetic consciousness.

Personal Subject:

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946-Criticism and interpretation.

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955-Knowledge-Psychology.

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955-Criticism and interpretation.

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946-Knowledge-Psychology.

James, William, 1842-1910-Influence.

Subject Term:

American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Modernism (Literature) -- United States.

Performing arts in literature.

Consciousness in literature.

Self in literature.