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This book offers a bold critical method for reading Gertrude Stein´s work on its own terms by forgoing conventional explanation and adopting Stein´s radical approach to meaning and knowledge. Inspired by the immanence of landscape, both of Provence where she travelled in the 1920s and the spatial relations of landscape painting, Stein presents a new model of meaning whereby making sense is an activity distributed in a text and across successive texts. From love poetry, to plays and portraiture, Linda Voris offers close readings of Stein´s most anthologized and less known writing in a case study of a new method of interpretation. By practicing Stein´s innovative means of making sense, Voris reveals the excitement of her discoveries and the startling implications for knowledge, identity, and intimacy.

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Introduction: The Force of Landscape.- Chapter 1. Making Sense: Stein´s Radical Epistemology.- Chapter 2. Taking Place in Love Poems.- Chapter 3. Framing Space: The First Landscape Play.- Chapter 4. Dissolving the Frame.- Chapter 5. Portraiture after Landscape.- Conclusion: Relating Chance and Choice.

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"Linda Voris´s The Composition of Sense in Gertrude Stein´s Landscape Writing is, quite simply, a game-changer for Stein scholarship. This important monograph proposes a radical new critical approach to Stein´s work ... ." (Georgina Nugent-Folan, Tulsa Studies in Women´s Literature, Vol. 37 (2), 2018)

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Linda Voris is Associate Professor of Literature at American University, Washington, D.C., USA. Her publications have appeared in Modernism/modernity, Studies in American Fiction, and American Women Poets in the 21st-Century.

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