Time as a Simple/Multiple Melody in Henri Bergson’s Duration and Simultaneity and Gertrude Stein’s Landscape Writing

In 1922, Einstein and Bergson publicly discussed the nature of time. I argue that this debate, which pivoted on the question of whether there is one time or a plurality of times, and especially the phenomenological stance promoted in it by Bergson, makes for an illuminating context against which to read Stein’s 1920s literary thinking on temporality.