DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/TRMC-BT55
Defense Date
2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
English
First Advisor
Katherine S. Nash
Second Advisor
Nicholas Frankel
Third Advisor
Jason Coats
Abstract
In exploring the relationship between Gertrude Stein's and Henri Bergson's lectures on movement this posits a conception of democracy embedded in Stein's poetry where everything that moves exists and everything that exists has a stake in the landscape in which it exists. Tender Buttons describes objects in ways that highlight the movement of nonliving matter, evoking current scholarship in new materialism, particularly Jane Bennett. After establishing a relationship between Bergson and Stein, this thesis turns to Jane Bennett teasing out the political and ecological implications of Stein's conception of movement in inanimate objects.
Rights
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Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-11-2021