"I hate intellectual women": The Gertrude Stein effect.

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In a 1946 interview Gertrude Stein noted that James Joyce's work had been 'accepted' while hers had not. Stein was vociferous in her opinions on Joyce, once calling him a 'third rate Irish politician', and Joyce held a similarly negative opinion of hers, and always leveraged Stein's gender as a means of relaying his insults. His infamous remark ‘I hate intellectual women’, was spoken in relation to Stein, as was his comment to Frank Budgen that ‘You have never heard of a woman who was the author of a complete philosophic system. No, and I don’t think you ever will’. While Stein's comments on Joyce have been dismissed as 'sour grapes', Joyce's comments on Stein have had a lasting negative impact on her critical reception, and legacy, particularly in relation to her male peers. Stein has, effectively, been written out of Joyce Studies and, by extension, Beckett Studies: she has been made invisible. In my talk I will provide an overview of "JOYCENSTEIN", the project I will be researching as part of my MSCA Fellowship at the University of Vienna, wherein I will conduct the first ever extended comparative study of Joyce and Stein's respective modernisms

Period	10 May 2023
Held at	Research Platform GAIN - Gender: Ambivalent In_Visibilities