Abstract
This research project aims to present reflections on the established relation between Children's Literature and Modernism. In order to achieve this objective, Reception Theory (JAUSS, 1994, ISER, 1999 and 1996) and Feminist Criticism (SHOWALTER 1985 and 1994) were the theoretical contributions selected to enable reading possibilities of The World is Round (1939), by Gertrude Stein; "Nurse…