Gertrude Stein, Modernism, and the problem of "genius" / Barbara Will.

Author/creator Will, Barbara
Format Book
Publication InfoEdinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2000.
Descriptionxi, 180 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents In search of subject : knowledge and excess in Stein's early texts -- Self-naming, self-splitting : the making of a modernist "genius" in the The making of Americans and G.M.P. -- "Masterpieces of yes" : talking and listening in "To call it a day" and "Forensics" -- Genii locorum : expatriate resolutions in Useful knowledge -- From "genius" to celebrity : The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and Everybody's autobiography -- Coda : Warhol's Stein.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 166-175) and index.
LCCN 00421412
ISBN0748611983