SOURCE: “‘Melanctha’: The Costs of Mind-Wandering,” in Reading Gertrude Stein: Body, Text, Gnosis, Cornell University Press, 1990, pp. 12–54.
In the following essay, Ruddick determines “Melanctha” to be Stein's conscious break with nineteenth-century literary standards.
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