The true story of Alice B. Toklas : a study of three autobiographies

The true story of Alice B. Toklas : a study of three autobiographies /

In this original and intriguing study, Anna Linzie examines three mid-twentieth-century texts never before treated as interrelated in a book-length work of literary criticism: Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and Alice B. Toklas's The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book (...

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Main Author: Linzie, Anna, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2006
Subjects:
Toklas, Alice B.
Toklas, Alice B. > Alice B. Toklas cook book.
Toklas, Alice B. > What is remembered.
Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946. > Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
Authors, American > Biography > History and criticism.
Women authors, American > Biography > History and criticism.
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the Toklas autobiographies and the true story of Alice B. Toklas
  • Genre/textuality and gender/sexuality in the Toklas autobiographies
  • Authorship and authority in The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
  • Mimicry and sexual/textual difference in What is remembered
  • The Alice B. Toklas cook book and the incompatible combination
  • Conclusion : the true story of Alice B. Toklas?

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