Rooms

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Rooms is a section of Gertrude Stein’s experimental modernist work "Tender Buttons," characterized by its fragmented, poetic prose exploring everyday domestic spaces.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work section
prose poem cycle
analyzedFor innovative representation of space
relationship between language and perception
author Gertrude Stein NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception considered a key text of high modernism
experimentalFeature absence of linear plot
disruption of conventional syntax
focus on sound and rhythm of words
form fragmented prose
genre experimental prose
modernist literature
prose poetry
hasCompanionSections Food GENERATED
Objects GENERATED
hasSectionType domestic interiors
includedIn first edition of Tender Buttons
influenced language-centered writing
later experimental poetry
influencedBy avant-garde poetics
cubism
language English
literaryMovement Modernism
literaryPeriod early 20th century American literature
medium print
narrativeTechnique discontinuous description
stream of consciousness elements
narrativeVoice first-person experimental voice
partOf Tender Buttons NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1914
publisherOfContainingWork Claire Marie NERFINISHED
structure series of short prose pieces
studiedIn feminist literary criticism
modernist literature courses
style defamiliarization of everyday life
nonlinear structure
parataxis
repetitive language
theme domestic space
everyday objects
gendered domesticity
material environment
perception and language
subjectivity
workContainedIn book Tender Buttons

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Tender Buttons hasPart Rooms