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Irresistible dictation : Gertrude Stein and the correlations of writing and science

Steven Meyer (Author)
Before Gertrude Stein became the twentieth century's preeminent experimental writer, she spent a decade conducting research at Harvard's psychological laboratory and the Johns Hopkins Medical School. This book shows how her extensive scientific training continued to exert a profound influence on the development of her extraordinary literary practices.
Print Book, English, 2001
Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2001
History
xxiii, 450 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
9780804733281, 9780804749305, 0804733287, 0804749302
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Ecstatic science : natural history of the soul
Beyond organic form : Gertrude Stein and Johns Hopkins neuroanatomy
Line of divergence : Emerson and Stein
At the Whiteheads' : science and the modern world
Writing psychology over : toward a more radical empiricism
Every field incomplete : mapping "The very abysses of our nature"
"The physiognomy of the thing" : sentences and paragraphs in Stein and Wittgenstein
Conclusion : "Sentences singing themselves."