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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)If Paul Cezanne, of whom Gertrude Stein wrote a "portrait" in 1911, broke with traditional forms (such as perspective) and traditional modes (such as pictorial replication), he did so by accenting the verticals,...
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From:College Literature (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGertrude Stein's hermeticism and obscurity have inspired numerous parodies that offer an excellent method for investigating how students interpret a writer's intentions by analyzing her writing style. Students were...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 27, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedNella Larsen's 'Quicksand' can be interpreted as a dialog with Gertrude Stein's 'Three Lives' in terms of portrayal of Black women. Stein's exotic Melanctha Herbert is representative of the common stereotype of Black...
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From: Raritan[In the following essay, Schultz discusses Stein's ruminations on her writing career in “Stanzas in Meditation” and her autobiographical prose works.] I often think how celebrated I am. It is difficult not to think...
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From: Explicator[(essay date winter 2006) In this essay, Wilson argues that the title character of "The Gentle Lena" cannot be docile and meek, since these are characteristics that require an act of will; rather, she should be described...
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From: Gertrude Stein: A Biography of Her Work[(essay date 1951) In the following excerpt, originally published in 1951, Sutherland offers a detailed study of the narrative structure of the stories in Three Lives, commenting specifically on their relationship to the...
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From: Parnassus[In the following excerpt, Koestenbaum describes Stein's poetry as having appealing qualities of indefiniteness and as producing a liberating effect through its lack of focus and disregard of generic restrictions.] 1...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 39, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSeptember 1933 was a turning point in Gertrude Stein's career That month, Alfred Harcourt published The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and Bennett Cerf issued Three Lives in the Modern Library, a series of cheap...
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From: Black American Literature ForumGertrude Stein always prided herself on her acute observations of human nature, a talent she attributed to her experimental training in psychology under William James and Hugo Münsterberg at Harvard. But by her own...
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From: Critical Essays on Gertrude Stein[(essay date 1986) In the following essay, Bowers demonstrates how Stein made the writing process a part of the performance of Four Saints in Three Acts.] I Gertrude Stein approached drama as she did every genre: She...
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From: Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual, 1973[(essay date 1974) In the following essay, Le Vot presents a year-by-year record of Fitzgerald's activities in Paris, as well as an overview of his writings from that period.] During a span of ten years, from his first...
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From: Yale University Library Gazette[(essay date 1968) In the following essay, Tufte reprints and analyzes a little-known prothalamium written by Stein and held in the Yale University Library. Characterizing it as the only work of its kind by a major...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 63, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedGertrude Stein said, "And then there is using everything." I have long held to this aspirational strategy, taking completion as a basic measure of the world as I would have it, and wanting to depict it at total scale. I...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 27, Issue 1)"Gertrude Stein Comes Home" by Seymour I. To]1, in The Sewanee Review (Spring 2002), 735 University Ave., Sewanee, Tenn. 37383. When Gertrude Stein returned to America to begin her now-legendary lecture tour in 1934,...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6193)In Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (2007), Janet Malcolm turned to the murky world of Gertrude Stein scholarship. The book describes Malcolm's thwarted attempts to meet with an elusive teacher and dramaturge named Leon...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedGertrude Stein. Writings 1903-1932. Ed. Catharine R. Stimpson and Harriet Chessman. Library of America, 1998. 941 pp. $40.00; Writings 1932-1946. 844 pp. $40.00. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) would be pleased to have...
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From:TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) (Vol. 40, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedGertrude Stein took classes from William James while she was a student at Radcliffe college in 1894. She participated in several experiments involving dictation and automatic writing. She was so intrigued by the studies...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 26, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedCritics and commentators have held hugely divergent views on the quality and significance of Gertrude Stein's literary works. They have agreed, however, on one point: that with the notable exception of The Autobiography...
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. --Gertrude Stein (1947) Judith Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure encapsulates a major theoretical shift in the attitude of cultural criticism...
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From:The Kenyon Review (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedJames Joyce, 24, writer Nora Barnacle, 22, his wife in their apartment on the Via Giovanni Boccaccio, Trieste, May 23, 1906 James in the midst she's suddenly ghosteyed and boyfingered and she's gone away...