A Vocabulary of Thinking: Gertrude Stein and Contemporary North American Women's Innnovative Writing

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Acknowledgments ix Permissions xi one Starting with Stein: Three Vocabularies of Thinking 1 two Domestic Economies: Harryette Mullen’s Trimmings and S*PeRM**K*T 37 three Re-Versing the Lyric: Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland’s Double Negative 65 four Multirelational Autobiography: Lyn Hejinian’s My Life 97 five Found in Retranslation: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE 125 Epilogue: Returning to Stein 159 Notes 165 Bibliography 191 Index 209 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contents ...