Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act
Charles Caramello
ISBN: | 9780807822678 |
Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Published: | 31 May, 1996 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act
Charles Caramello
Focusing on biographical portraiture, Charles Caramello argues that Henry James and Gertrude Stein performed biographical acts in two senses of the phrase: they wrote biography, but as a cover for autobiography. Constructing literary genealogies while creating original literary forms, they used their biographical portraits of precursors and contemporaries to portray themselves as exemplary modern artists. Caramello advances this argument through close readings of four works that explore themes o
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