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Gertrude Stein and the Essence of What Happens: How Expert Rule Is Giving Way to Shared Governance -- And Why Politics Will Never Be the Same

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Gertrude Stein and the Essence of What Happens: How Expert Rule Is Giving Way to Shared Governance -- And Why Politics Will Never Be the Same - Watson, Dana Cairns
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In this provocative study, Dana Cairns Watson traces Gertrude Stein's growing fascination with the cognitive and political ramifications of conversation and how that interest influenced her writing over the course of her career. No book in recent decades has illuminated so many of Stein's works so extensively--from the early fiction of The Making of Americans to the poetry of Tender Buttons to her opera libretto The Mother of Us All . Seeking to sustain Stein's lively, pleasant, populist spirit, Watson shows how the ...

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Gertrude Stein and the Essence of What Happens: How Expert Rule Is Giving Way to Shared Governance -- And Why Politics Will Never Be the Same 2005, Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, TN

ISBN-13: 9780826514639

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