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Ways of not reading Gertrude Stein

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posted on 2023-06-08, 20:01 authored by Natalia CecireNatalia Cecire
I situate the controversial critical strategies of “distant reading” and “surface reading” in the reception history of Gertrude Stein, an author whose work was frequently declared “unreadable.” I argue that an early twentieth-century history of compromised forms of reading, including women’s reading and information work, subtends both the technology with which distant reading may be carried out and the ways in which an author’s work comes to be understood as a “corpus.”

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  • Published

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ELH: English Literary History

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0013-8304

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1

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82

Page range

281-312

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  • English Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-02-13

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2015-02-13

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2015-02-12

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