{"product_id":"irresistible-dictation-9780804749305","title":"Irresistible Dictation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore Gertrude Stein became the twentieth century's preeminent experimental writer, she spent a decade conducting research at Harvard's psychological laboratory and the Johns Hopkins Medical School. This book shows how her extensive scientific training continued to exert a profound influence on the development of her extraordinary literary practices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIrresistible Dictation\u003c\/i\u003e is dazzling, original, and wonderful. A major work about Gertrude Stein and her radical creativity, it also brings together literature and science in compelling ways. Steven Meyer writes with lucidity, freshness, and authority, and I am very glad he has written this book.\"—Catharine R. Stimpson, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University, and editor of \u003ci\u003eGertrude Stein: Writings, 1903-1932\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWritings, 1932-1946\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What has been missing from the vast body of Gertrude Stein studies is an approach so holistic that it sheds light not only on the literary tradition of which she was a part, but the early neurological and philosophical background that contributed so much to her thought. Along comes Steven Meyer, who has somehow mastered the science and the philosophy so throughly that he presents us with exciting, dramatically new, and beautifully lucid concepts that are sure to fascinate scholars for decades to come.\" -- Sherwin B. Nuland * M.D., Clinical Professor, Yale Medical School, and author of \u003ci\u003eHow We Die\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHow We Live\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mysteries Within\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLeonardo Da Vinci\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIrresistible Dictation\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating new view of science, literature, and the art of writing. I suspect that Steven Meyer has outdone his protagonist, Gertrude Stein, in the subtlety of his philosphical and literary analyses and in his penetrating insights into the limits of the contemporary neurosciences. A marvelous tour de force.\"—Israel Rosenfield, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Memory: A New Theory of the Brain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFreud's \"Megalomania\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This groundbreaking work enters areas of Gertrude Stein research that once were considered marginal, but now must be considered central. Steven Meyer brings Stein back to science, reclaims her for good sense, and widens our understanding of her no longer peculiar originality.\" -- William H. Gass * author of \u003ci\u003eThe World Within the Word\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHabitations of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinding a Form\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Tunnel\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCartesian Sonata and Other Novellas\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] landmark study.\" -- \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] informative, meticulously researched study of Gertrude Stein's scientific training.\" -- \u003ci\u003eModernism \/ Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Meyer's] discussions of [Stein's] writing are consistently superb. In his hands, 'Bee Time Vine' charms us all over again and 'Mrs. Emerson' yields new linguistic possibilities . . . .Meyer expertly shows how Stein attends to every aspect of writing: space, spelling, negation, sonority, sequence, psychology, intonation, rhythm, punctuation . . . .Well-written, cogent, and enlightening, \u003ci\u003eIrresistible Dictation\u003c\/i\u003e opens up areas of investigation long overdue in Stein scholarship while it returns us to the irresistible pleasures of Gertrude Stein, who confronted fate and rose—rises—to the occassion.\" -- \u003ci\u003eTheBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations  A note to the reader  Preface  Part I. The Neurophysiological Imagination: 1. Ecstatic science: natural history of the soul  2. Beyond organic form: Gertrude Stein and John Hopkins neuroanatomy  Part II. The New Organism: Introduction: irresistible dictation  3. Line of divergence: Emerson and Stein  4. At the Whiteheads': science and the modern world  Part III. Stein and William James: Introduction: the will to live  5. Writing psychology over: toward a more radical empiricism  6. Every field incomplete: mapping 'the very abysses of our nature'  7. 'The physiognomy of the thing': sentences and paragraphs in Stein and Wittgenstein  8. Conclusion: 'sentences singing themselves'  Coda in three voices  Notes  Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405557408087,"sku":"9780804749305","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804749305.jpg?v=1730492824","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/irresistible-dictation-9780804749305","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}