Gertrude Stein's Radical Aesthetics

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Gender and Sexuality
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Examines how Stein's "Tender Buttons" uses radical aesthetics to necessitate social change and better the position of women in society.

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This essay looks critically at Stein's writing style in her book "Tender Buttons," and shows how her syntax draws attention to the binary of man and woman, and ultimately deconstructs this binary.

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"In Tender Buttons, Stein stresses the importance of the direct treatment of objects, as well as how they appear on the page. She employs parataxis, the placement of words side by side, in order to show the importance of simultaneity, and how it affects multiple perspectives. Through parataxis, Stein blatantly rejects traditional realism, and instead shows how truth is not solely rooted in the appearance, but in the overall mood or meditation of a piece."

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Gertrude Stein's Radical Aesthetics (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 14, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Gertrude-Stein's-Radical-Aesthetics/65048

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"Gertrude Stein's Radical Aesthetics" 15 January 2012. Web. 14 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Gertrude-Stein's-Radical-Aesthetics/65048>