METATEXTUALITY OF GERTRUDE STEIN'S METHOD

The article considers the basic prerequisites for the development of the modernist method of composition in art, literature in particular, based on the analysis of the literary critical and dramatic works of the American writer Gertrude Stein. Literary essays, searching the issues of compositional dynamics, chronological flexibility, punctuation irregularity, semantic abstractness, and grammatically determined temporality are textually formalized not only by the author's intention, but also by internally organized metatextual connections that build a conceptually complex dichotomous system of (self-)perception of the text as an act of production or action juxtaposed with the oppositional interpretation of reproduction or reaction. The metagenre uncertainty, openness, and universality of Stein's plays are represented by their translations into Ukrainian as an example of objective language reduction, translational depersonalization, and the paradox of a word blocked in the text. Stein's artistic method adds to the linguistic field, among other structural elements, implications for hermeneutic and phenomenological approaches in literary theory, as well as extra-literary contaminations in the field of fine art, cubism and absurdism in particular, photography and cinematography, such as the reinterpretation of collage composition and assemblage, which will develop into cut-up technique in the second half of the 20th century.