SETTLING MUD, RUNNING STREAMS, AND “THE WHOLE THING ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN”: SUBVERTING CLASSICAL DISCOURSE AND THE ROLE OF CHARACTER IN GERTRUDE STEIN’S “MELANCTHA”
The thesis begins by exploring Stein’s autobiographical connections to the Jamesian concepts of bottom nature and habit, in an attempt to demonstrate that both, in the pen of Gertrude Stein, are as connected to classical virtue theory and the development of character as a moral state and characters...
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UKnowledge
2014
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| Online Access: | http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/10 http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=english_etds |