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Peculiarities of Stein‘s Style in Her Portraits of Painters

Gertrude Stein is a writer of experimental prose and one of the most original American Modernists. I need to begin by saying that “Three Portraits of Painters” is the creation of an extremely well-educated woman - an American, a Jew, the child of immigrant parents, a lesbian, and a feminist - whose life experience and literary production bridge the Victorian and modern eras.
Her two enduring concerns are to portray the experience of woman and to explore what it means to present the fact or act of perception, which can be described as how we organize what we see.
Gertrude Stein is interested in what it is to be an American, what it is to be a woman, how people see things, how people tell stories. She describes her own ordinary experience.
She writes about ordinary, commonplace people in such a manner that the absolute uniqueness of each is captured. This is her contribution to the American tradition of democracy and individualism.
She writes extensively abo...

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