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Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels of Gertrude Stein

Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels of Gertrude Stein

Doane, Janice L.

Hardcover

Series: Contributions in Women's Studies, Book 62

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0313249369
ISBN13: 9780313249365
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Jan 10 1986
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Making use of recent feminist critical theory, Doane considers Gertrude Stein's modernist preoccupation with narrative silence in her early novels. She demonstrates the effects of this preoccupation on Stein's literary development, from the conventionality of her first novel, Q.E.D., through Fernhurst and Three Lives, to the radical transgressions against narrative intelligibility in The Making Of Americans. Doane, contending that Stein's ultimate revolt against traditional modes of discourse is directly attributable to her position as a woman writer, effectively elaborates the possibilities of creating an alternative feminist discourse and explores the ways in which gender may contribute to meaning.

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