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Contingency as Medium in Gertrude Stein

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Contingency as Medium in Gertrude Stein (EN)
Savinel, Christine
Gertrude Stein questions the event as an external and contingent accident, to be at least subsumed within the continuum of thinking —the untimely flux of interiormeditation and creation. Throughout her prolific production, one of Stein’s majorattempts was to do away with the event in literature, to dispense with it, to play against it. Stein pointedly selected as her topic the contingency of life within historical time, in her several autobiographical texts from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1932) to Wars I Have Seen (1944). Wars I Have Seen proves to be a singular work which helps us realise the process through which Stein resists historical contingency. As this essay argues, Wars I Have Seen gives us a remarkable vision of Stein trying to resist the pressure of History, and a vision of literature trying to hold at bay the contingency of events. (EN)
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Peer-reviewed Article (EN)
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (EN)
Wars I Have Seen (EN)
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Everybody’s Autobiography (EN)
Gertrude Stein (EN)
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history (EN)
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Department of English Language and Literature
Synthesis
Articles
Synthesis
English
2019-10-18
https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/synthesis/article/view/20892
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EN)
1791-5155
Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies; No. 11 (2018): Records of Contingency: Forms and Media; 34-49 (EN)
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Copyright (c) 2019 Christine Savinel (EN)



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