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A Stein Reader

A Stein Reader

Gertrude Stein

This important collection presents Gertrude Stein for the first time in her brilliant modernity.
Wars I Have Seen

Wars I Have Seen

Gertrude Stein

Wars I Have Seen is the American writer Gertrude Stein's memoir of her experiences during the Second World War. Gertrude Stein was living in Europe during the time of the war.
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946

The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946

Gertrude Stein

This monumental two-volume set of her correspondence with Carl Van Vechten, the critic novelist, and photographer, offers new insight into Stein's life, her art, and the intellectual and artistic milieu of Paris.
Narration: Four Lectures

Narration: Four Lectures

Gertrude Stein

Newly famous in the wake of the publication of her groundbreaking Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein delivered her Narration lectures to packed audiences at the University of Chicago in 1935.
Portraits and Prayers

Portraits and Prayers

Gertrude Stein

Portraits and Prayers is a collection of early essays and word portraits by the American writer Gertrude Stein. Her subjects often provide a description of what she observed in her Saturday salons.
Matisse, Picasso, and Gertrude Stein, with Two Shorter Stories

Matisse, Picasso, and Gertrude Stein, with Two Shorter Stories

Gertrude Stein

Three early experimental pieces involving such stylistic devices as repeated variations on a limited set of sentences and phrases, and "word portraits." Also includes "A Long Gay Book" and "Many, Many Women."
The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have ...

The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have ...

Alice Walker

Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, ... placed one hand under a wing, the other under Gertrude's body, covering Gertrude's gray, scaly, entirely precious feet.
Last Operas and Plays

Last Operas and Plays

Gertrude Stein

This book makes available many of Stein's most important and most- produced works.
The Anti-Representational Response: Gertrude Stein's Lucy ...

The Anti-Representational Response: Gertrude Stein's Lucy ...

Victoria Maubrey-Rose

Saarinen, Aline (Bernstein) Louchheim (Mrs Eero Saarinen). "The Steins in Paris. " American Scholar, 27 (1958), 437—448. Schmitz, Neil. "Gertrude Stein as Post- Modernist: the Rhetoric of Tender Buttons." Journal of Modern Literature, ...
GEOGRAPHY & PLAYS: A Collection of Poems, Stories and Plays

GEOGRAPHY & PLAYS: A Collection of Poems, Stories and Plays

Gertrude Stein

Geography and Plays is a generous collection of poems, stories and plays and they present Gertrude Stein's stream-of-consciousness writings. These rhythmical essays or word portraits are often considered as literature's answer to Cubism.
Everybody's Autobiography

Everybody's Autobiography

Gertrude Stein

Here are Stein’s devastating analyses of some of the major figures of the day whom she met—among them Dashiell Hammett, Charlie Chaplin, Pablo Picasso, Marianne Moore, Mrs.
Of Kindred Germanic Origins: Myths, Legends, Genealogy and ...

Of Kindred Germanic Origins: Myths, Legends, Genealogy and ...

Jodie Scales

... Anna Catharine STEIN, 181 Anna Margaretha STEIN, 181 Brosius STEIN, 73 Byron STEIN, 179 Catharine STEIN, 181-182 Chasper STEIN***** Charles Edward STEIN, 180 Christian STEIN, 149 Christophel STEIN, 181 Cleda Alma STEIN, ...
Paris France

Paris France

Gertrude Stein

In Paris France (1940)—published here with a new introduction from Adam Gopnik—Stein unites her childhood memories of Paris with her observations about everything from art and war to love and cooking.
Noon

Noon

Cole Swensen

A reprinting of the successful title by Sun & Moon Press, winner of the 2000 Gertrude Stein Award.
Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

Frederick John Hoffman

Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
The passionate observer: photographs by Carl Van Vechten

The passionate observer: photographs by Carl Van Vechten

Keith F. Davis

Included in this collection are subjects as diverse as Cab Calloway and Alfred Stieglitz, George Gershwin and Gertrude Stein, Frida Kahlo and Tallulah Bankhead.
Geography and Plays

Geography and Plays

Gertrude Stein

Harry Phelan Gibb [191 2: see note 3] 201 transitional to non-repetitive, alogical style Portrait of Constance Fletcher [ 1 9 1 1 ] 157 Note: My assignment of texts to each category, though not identical with Marianne DeKoven's in A Different ...
Kristen Stein: Contemporary Paintings

Kristen Stein: Contemporary Paintings

Kristen Stein

Kristen Stein. Krister Stein is an award-winning contemporary artist living in Colorado. Her styles include, but are not limited to, contemporary, abstract, modern, expressionist, pop folk, and cubist. You can view a sample of Kristen's various ...
Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations ...

Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations ...

Steven Meyer

This book shows how her extensive scientific training continued to exert a profound influence on the development of her extraordinary literary practices. Irresistible Dictation is dazzling, original, and wonderful.
The Jewish community of Utica, New York, 1847-1948

The Jewish community of Utica, New York, 1847-1948

Solomon Joshua Kohn

Isaac N. Berrenson Rabbi I. David Essrig Rabbi Morris Bekritsky Rabbi Samuel Fink Rabbi Louis Ginsburg Simon Stein Simon Stein Simon Stein Simon Stein Simon Stein Louis Weinburgh Jacob Mendelsohn Jacob Mendelsohn Philip ...
Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women's ...

Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women's ...

Leigh Gilmore

Many crities have come to read the shape of Stein's career through her relationship with Toklas. Neil Schmitz, for example, has observed that Stein's work changed once her brother Leo had been moved out and Stein had begun her life with ...
Advances in Analysis: The Legacy of Elias M. Stein

Advances in Analysis: The Legacy of Elias M. Stein

Charles Fefferman

Drawing inspiration from Stein’s contributions to harmonic analysis and related topics, this volume gathers papers from internationally renowned mathematicians, many of whom have been Stein’s students.
Oh Sweet Child of Mine

Oh Sweet Child of Mine

Kristen Stein

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Rick Stein Puddings

Rick Stein Puddings

Rick Stein

Rick Stein has handpicked 12 of his favourite dessert recipes from his entire collection to appear in this charming gift book.
Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism

Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism

Jerome J. McGann

Exploring the work of writers like William Morris, Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein, as well as Laura Riding and Bob Brown, he shows how each exploits the visibilities of language, often by aligning their work ...
The True Story of Alice B. Toklas: A Study of Three ...

The True Story of Alice B. Toklas: A Study of Three ...

Anna Linzie

Edited by Linda Simon. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994: 109–16. Adams, Timothy Dow. “'She Will Be Me When This You See': Gertrude Stein's Mock-Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.” Publications of the Arkansas Philological  ...

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