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Gertrude Stein and the Literature of the Modern Consciousness is a 1970 book by literary scholar Norman Weinstein.

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Earl Fendelman in American Quarterly: Weinstein does manage to touch on a very large number of subjects. He helps to remind us that what may appear merely playful or bohemian in Stein finds correspondences in the most serious works of philosophy and psychology written in her era and that much contemporary poetry continues to explore problems that earlier fascinated her.... Still, if nothing else, Weinstein's book suggests that an audience is coming into existence that is comfortable with Stein.

Marvin J. LaHood in Books Abroad: Meditation, Weinstein painstakingly places Stein's efforts in the context of this[Page break] modern experimentation with language in its broadest sense. From this perspective he capably illuminates some of the obscurities of her writing, opens up new avenues of approach to the works discussed, and focuses the larger questions of language that have been explored from Mallarme to Joyce to contemporary poets such as Robert Duncan and

In his final chapter he brilliantly connects these bold linguistic experiments with the thinking of many who shared her concerns, from Sartre to McLuhan.

Michael Edward Kaufmann: John Malcolm Brinnin, The Third Rose (Little, Brown, 1959)—like Donald Sutherland, Gertrude Stein: A Biography of Her Work (Yale University Press, 1957), Michael J. Hoffman, The Development of Abstractionism in the Writings of Gertrude Stein (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), and Norman Weinstein, Gertrude Stein and the Literature of Modern Consciousness (Ungar, 1970)—believes that Stein wanted to create verbal depictions of objects in the manner of the Cubists, that she attempted "abstract" arrangements of words on the page. They depict Stein as unaware of the difference between her material and the painters', unaware of the malleability of stone and metal and wood compared to the rigidity of lan

Jennifer Ashton in ELH: 'My interest in mapping the theoretical shifts in Stein's work was initially sparked by the consonance I found among Stein's readers—from her contemporaries through her most recent critics—with respect to what might be termed an "realism" as opposed to her later "abstractionism." The following critical have been useful to me in constructing my own formulation of this divide in Stein's work.

A Review of General Semantics praised the book: Gertrude Stein's ouvrage is interpreted in terms of some twentieth century theories of language. Weinstein is interested in such matters as language and body consciousness, linguistic relativity, experimental word patterning, etc., and claims that Stein helped forge the literature of the modern consciousness. [Arthur A. Berger]