Excerpts from a recent review of my book; scroll down for full pdf copy

Linda Voris’s The Composition of Sense in Gertrude Stein’s Landscape Writing is, quite simply, a game-changer for Stein scholarship. This important monograph proposes a radical new critical approach to Stein’s work by adopting an interpretative methodology that is both drawn from and receptive to what Voris argues was Stein’s own approach to composition and meaning. . . 

The virtuosity of Voris’s close readings and the book’s sheer intellectual achievement mark it as a monumental contribution to the field of Stein scholarship.

This study firmly establishes Voris as a leading Stein scholar, and her work can be situated alongside the writings of Sharon Kirsch, Janet Boyd, and Sarah Posman, key figures in this growing turn in Stein studies to focus on the writings themselves instead of their author. In Voris then, we finally have the very reader not only that Stein wished for but also that her work so deserves.

–Georgina Nugent-Folan, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 37 (2): 458-60, 2018