Gertrude Stein, Modernism, and the Problem of 'Genius' / / Barbara Will.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations of Works by Gertrude Stein -- Introduction -- Part I: Coming to Terms -- 1 In Search of a Subject: Knowledge and Excess in Stein’s Early Texts -- 2 Self-Naming, Self-Splitting: The Making of a Modernist “ Genius” in The Making of Americans and G.M.P. -- Part II: Congenial Fictions -- 3 “Masterpieces of Yes” : Talking and Listening in “To Call It a Day” and “Forensics” -- 4 Genii Locorum: Expatriate Resolutions in Useful Knowledge -- 5 From “Genius” to Celebrity: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and Everybody’s Autobiography -- Coda: Warhol’s Stein -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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