Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-250) and index.
Contents
Talking and listening in Stein's early life and works -- Modifying the mind : William James and Tender Buttons -- Conversational relations in Geography and Plays -- Talk in the thirties : in the present, with the past -- Talking boundaries into thresholds in Ida -- Expressing a state of mind : conversation, politics and individuality in Mrs. Reynolds and Brewsie and Willie.
