Reading Gertrude Stein for Pleasure: Finding the “Mere Humor” in “High Modernism”

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Studies in American Humor Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.5325/studamerhumor.9.2.0211

Sarah Shermyen

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Abstract

ABSTRACT:High modernist poetry, particularly Gertrude Stein’s 1923 poem “If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso,” is often considered impenetrable and distinct from Stein’s more clearly humorous prose work. However, the poem invites us to laugh at the chaos of our world through the chaos and instability of language. This article explores the poem’s humor and the possibilities for pleasure it offers through the rhythm of repetition. Stein’s playfulness points to an oft-overlooked aspect of high modernism: its appeal to our most visceral selves.

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阅读格特鲁德·斯坦的乐趣:在“高级现代主义”中寻找“纯粹的幽默”

摘要:高级现代主义诗歌，尤其是格特鲁德·斯坦1923年的诗歌《如果我告诉他:毕加索全集》，通常被认为是难以理解的，与斯坦更幽默的散文作品截然不同。然而，这首诗邀请我们通过语言的混乱和不稳定来嘲笑我们世界的混乱。本文探讨了这首诗的幽默和它通过重复的节奏提供的乐趣的可能性。斯坦的戏谑指出了高度现代主义的一个经常被忽视的方面:它对我们最内在的自我的吸引力。

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Studies in American Humor HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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1.40

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期刊介绍： Welcome to the home of Studies in American Humor, the journal of the American Humor Studies Association. Founded by the American Humor Studies Association in 1974 and published continuously since 1982, StAH specializes in humanistic research on humor in America (loosely defined) because the universal human capacity for humor is always expressed within the specific contexts of time, place, and audience that research methods in the humanities strive to address. Such methods now extend well beyond the literary and film analyses that once formed the core of American humor scholarship to a wide range of critical, biographical, historical, theoretical, archival, ethnographic, and digital studies of humor in performance and public life as well as in print and other media. StAH’s expanded editorial board of specialists marks that growth. On behalf of the editorial board, I invite scholars across the humanities to submit their best work on topics in American humor and join us in advancing knowledge in the field.