A Vocabulary of Thinking: Gertrude Stein and Contemporary North American Women's Innnovative WritingUniversity of Iowa Press, 2007 M12 1 - 228 páginas Using experimental style as a framework for close readings of writings produced by late twentieth-century North American women, Deborah Mix places Gertrude Stein at the center of a feminist and multicultural account of twentieth-century innovative writing. Her meticulously argued work maps literary affiliations that connect Stein to the work of Harryette Mullen, Daphne Marlatt, Betsy Warland, Lyn Hejinian, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. By distinguishing a vocabulary-which is flexible, evolving, and simultaneously individual and communal--from a lexicon-which is recorded, fixed, and carries the burden of masculine authority--Mix argues that Stein's experimentalism both enables and demands the complex responses of these authors. Arguing that these authors have received relatively little attention because of the difficulty in categorizing them, Mix brings the writing of women of color, lesbians, and collaborative writers into the discussion of experimental writing. Thus, rather than exploring conventional lines of influence, she departs from earlier scholarship by using Stein and her work as a lens through which to read the ways these authors have renegotiated tradition, authority, and innovation. Building on the tradition of experimental or avant-garde writing in the United States, Mix questions the politics of the canon and literary influence, offers close readings of previously neglected contemporary writers whose work doesn't fit within conventional categories, and by linking genres not typically associated with experimentalism-lyric, epic, and autobiography-challenges ongoing reevaluations of innovative writing. |
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... verse that work , aesthetically and politically , to make it function differently within and against those tra- ditions and assumptions . Often , as in the passages quoted above , Mar- latt and Warland's poetry disrupts conventional ...
... verse that work , aesthetically and politically , to make it function differently within and against those tra- ditions and assumptions . Often , as in the passages quoted above , Mar- latt and Warland's poetry disrupts conventional ...
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... verse those definitions ( women as resistors , as sub- verters , as powers ) , just as they worked to remake the definition of " collabo- ration . " How might they level the field , if not invert its terms ? How can they - through their ...
... verse those definitions ( women as resistors , as sub- verters , as powers ) , just as they worked to remake the definition of " collabo- ration . " How might they level the field , if not invert its terms ? How can they - through their ...
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... verse ” to her 1929 essay " Saving the Sentence " ( 242 ) . I discussed a similar version of this assertion about identity in Chapter 1 . 14. Spahr wryly notes that “ autobiography tends to be a popular genre not nec- essarily because ...
... verse ” to her 1929 essay " Saving the Sentence " ( 242 ) . I discussed a similar version of this assertion about identity in Chapter 1 . 14. Spahr wryly notes that “ autobiography tends to be a popular genre not nec- essarily because ...
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