Tender Buttons: Experimental Modernist Prose Poems on Objects, Food, Rooms, and Feminist Avant-Garde Perception - Couverture souple

Stein, Gertrude

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Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons (1914) is a radical triptych-"Objects," "Food," and "Rooms"-that dismantles ordinary description and rebuilds perception through rhythm, repetition, punning, and syntactic surprise. Rather than narrating events, the book makes domestic things strange: a carafe, a cushion, roast beef, a room become fields of linguistic experiment. Written in the ferment of modernism, alongside Cubist fragmentation and avant-garde abstraction, it shifts attention from what words refer to toward how they sound, collide, and generate meaning. Stein, an American expatriate in Paris, was central to the artistic milieu that included Picasso, Matisse, and other innovators she championed from her salon. Her medical and psychological training, her interest in consciousness, and her immersion in visual modernism helped shape a prose that tests perception itself. Tender Buttons also reflects Stein's intimate domestic life with Alice B. Toklas, transforming household language into an oblique poetics of attention, desire, and arrangement. This book is essential for readers interested in modernist experimentation, feminist literary innovation, and the pleasures of language freed from convention. It rewards patience, rereading, and a willingness to hear prose as music and thought as texture.

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�diteur: Sharp Ink
Date d'�dition: 2023
Langue: anglais
ISBN 10: 802835582X
ISBN 13: 9788028355821
Reliure: Broch�
Nombre de pages: 36
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Tender Buttons : Experimental Modernist Prose Poems on Objects, Food, Rooms, and Feminist Avant-Garde Perception

Gertrude Stein

Edit� par Sharp Ink, 2023

ISBN 10 : 802835582X ISBN 13 : 9788028355821

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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons (1914) is a radical triptych-'Objects,' 'Food,' and 'Rooms'-that dismantles ordinary description and rebuilds perception through rhythm, repetition, punning, and syntactic surprise. Rather than narrating events, the book makes domestic things strange: a carafe, a cushion, roast beef, a room become fields of linguistic experiment. Written in the ferment of modernism, alongside Cubist fragmentation and avant-garde abstraction, it shifts attention from what words refer to toward how they sound, collide, and generate meaning. Stein, an American expatriate in Paris, was central to the artistic milieu that included Picasso, Matisse, and other innovators she championed from her salon. Her medical and psychological training, her interest in consciousness, and her immersion in visual modernism helped shape a prose that tests perception itself. Tender Buttons also reflects Stein's intimate domestic life with Alice B. Toklas, transforming household language into an oblique poetics of attention, desire, and arrangement. This book is essential for readers interested in modernist experimentation, feminist literary innovation, and the pleasures of language freed from convention. It rewards patience, rereading, and a willingness to hear prose as music and thought as texture. N� de r�f. du vendeur 9788028355821

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