Dire la substance ou la substance du dire dans “Tender Buttons” de Gertrude Stein

This article seeks to analyse the nature of Gertrude Stein’s poetic language in Tender Buttons. The notion of substance is at the core of Stein’s grammar: the poet does not use language to describe the world’s substance, but uses language as a substance, turns language into a matter that she models...

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Hovedforfatter: Alfandary, Isabelle
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprog:Français
Udgivet: 2002
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Summary:This article seeks to analyse the nature of Gertrude Stein’s poetic language in Tender Buttons. The notion of substance is at the core of Stein’s grammar: the poet does not use language to describe the world’s substance, but uses language as a substance, turns language into a matter that she models as she writes. All landmarks are lost: the syntax often does not make sense, the mimetic representation is deliberately blurred. The reader can barely recognize his own language, the world he lives in: what the text manifests is that language definitely stands on its own.