Author: Chessman, Harriet Scott
Title: The Public is Invited to Dance: Representation, the Body, and Dialogue in Gertrude Stein
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1989. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xiv,247 pp. Minor rubbing, some small tears to dustwrapper, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Public is Invited to Dance; Mothers to Lovers: Maternal Authorship in 'Three Lives'; Steinian Dialogue and the Two-Body Relationship; The Poetics of Intimacy: The Caressing of Nouns: Representation and the Female Body; Creation as Dialogue; Reading as Conversation: 'Blood on the Dining Room Floor': The Intimacy of Audience; 'Ida' and Twins; Epilogue.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, American Literature, Gertrude Stein, Feminist Theory, Modernism, Modernists, Modernist, ,