The critical response to Gertrude Stein / edited by Kirk Curnutt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Curnutt, Kirk, 1964-

Series:

Critical responses in arts and letters 1057-0993 ; no. 36.

Critical responses in arts and letters, 1057-0993 ; no. 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946--Criticism and interpretation.

Stein, Gertrude.

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.

Summary:

Gathers reviews, commentaries, parodies, and reminiscences of one of the most controversial American modernist authors.

Contents:

Checklist of Works / Gertrude Stein xxiii

1. Contemporary Reviews: The Making of a Reputation 9

"Three Lives" / Anonymous 9

"Fiction, But Not Novels" / Anonymous 10

"Notable Piece of Realism" / Anonymous 10

"Three Lives. By Gertrude Stein" / Anonymous 11

"Curious Fiction Study" / Anonymous 11

"A Futurist Novel" / Anonymous 12

"Officer, She's Writing Again" / Anonymous 14

"A Cubist Treatise" / H. L. Mencken 14

"Gertrude Stein" / Anonymous 15

"Gertrude Stein Plagiary" / Anonymous 16

"New Outbreaks of Futurism" / Robert Emons Rogers 18

"Steinese Literature" / Charles Ashleigh 21

"Futurist Essays" / Anonymous 22

"Medals for Miss Stein" / Carl Van Vechten 23

"Miss Stein's Stories" / Edith Sitwell 25

"Incitement to Riot" / John W. Crawford 26

"Miss Stein Applies Cubism to Defenseless Prose" / G. E. K. 27

"The Writing of Gertrude Stein and Geography and Plays" / Kate Buss 28

"Gertrude Stein in Critical French Eyes" / Anonymous 32

"Everybody is a Real One" / Katherine Anne Porter 34

"We Ask for Bread" / Conrad Aiken 37

"Hogarth Essays" / Anonymous 40

"From a Litterateur's Notebook" / Elliot H. Paul 41

"Nonsense" / Edmund Wilson 44

"Words and Waste" / Sylva Norman 46

"Useful Knowledge" / Anonymous 48

"Books, Books, Books" / R.M.C. 49

"The Plain Edition of Gertrude Stein" / Lindley Williams Hubbell 53

"A Rose is a Rose" / Bernard Fay 55

"Gertrude Stein, Experimenter with Words" / Louis Bromfield 63

"A Note on Gertrude Stein" / William Troy 66

"Stunning Stein" / William S. Knickerbocker 69

"Two Brands of Piety" / Kenneth Burke 70

"A Prepare for Saints" / Joseph Wood Krutch 74

"The Theatre: Stein on the Table" / George Jean Nathan 76

"Books and Things" / Lewis Gannett 78

"Cheating at Solitaire" / Henry Seidel Canby 79

"Gertrude Stein Comma" / Ella Winter 82

"A Stone of Stumbling" / John Gould Fletcher 85

"The Impartial Essence" / Kenneth Burke 88

"Contemporary Criticism" / F. Cudworth Flint 91

"Books of the Quarter" / Hugh Sykes Davies 95

"Perspicuous Opacity" / Marianne Moore 98

"Crossword Puzzle" / R. S. 100

"Gertrude Stein on Writing" / Joseph Alsop, Jr. 101

"Self-Confidential" / Burton Rascoe 104

"Obituary of Europe and Gertrude Stein" / Samuel Sillen 106

"Stein on Picasso" / Agnes Mongan 107

"Stein on Picasso" / Nathalie Swan 108

"Picasso" / Anonymous 110

"Gertrude Stein for Children" / Louise Seaman Bechtel 111

"Books for Young People" / May Lamberton Becker 114

"Slightly Pied Pipers" / Edmund Wilson, Chauncey Hackett 115

"History Tramps Down the Champs-Elysees" / Janet Flanner 117

"Briefly Noted: Paris France by Gertrude Stein" / Anonymous 120

"Miss Stein and France" / Justin O'Brien 120

"Her France, Her Paris" / Dorothy Chamberlain 122

"War" / Katherine Bregy 123

"What Are Masterpieces" / Anonymous 125

"And Paris" / Jerome Mellquist 125

"All About Ida" / W. H. Auden 126

"Two Generations" / Klaus Mann 127

"The Importance of Being Earnest" / Ben Ray Redman 131

"Gertrude Stein's Wars" / Delmore Schwartz 135

"Matron's Primer" / Djuna Barnes 136

"Let Them Talk and Talk" / C.G. Paulding 138

"Gerty and the G.I.s" / Robert S. Warshow 140

"A Wonderchild for 72 Years" / Leo Lerman 143

"Briefly Noted" / Anonymous 147

"Gertrude Stein, Writer or Word Scientists?" / Malcolm Cowley 147

2. Contemporary Commentary: Style, Influence, and the Debate over Stein's Purpose 151

"Speculations, or Post-Impressionism in Prose" / Mabel Dodge 151

"How to Read Gertrude Stein" / Carl Van Vechten 154

"And She Triumphed in the Tragic Turnip Field!" / Anonymous 159

"Flat Prose" / Anonymous 160

"Posing" / Richard Burton 163

"Gertrude Stein

Hoax and Hoaxtress" / Alfred Kreymborg 165

"Four American Impressions" / Sherwood Anderson 170

"A Guide to Gertrude Stein" / Edmund Wilson 172

"The Stein Songs and Poetry" / Harold T. Pulsifer 176

"Communications: Gertrude Stein" / Mina Loy 178

"Communications: Gertrude Stein (Continued)" / Mina Loy 182

"The Latest Thing in Prose Style" / Donald B. Willard 187

"The Virtue of Intolerance" / Anonymous 188

"A Word on Gertrude Stein" / Gilbert Armitage 190

"Gertrude Stein" / Blanche London 191

"The Work of Gertrude Stein" / William Carlos Williams 194

"The Career of a Modernist" / Blanche London 200

"Has Gertrude Stein a Secret?" / B. F. Skinner 202

"Gertrude Stein: A Literary Idiot" / Michael Gold 208

"A 1 Pound Stein" / William Carlos Williams 211

"Gertrude Stein: Method in Madness" / Harvey Eagleson 214

"New Words for Old" / James Laughlin IV 221

"Letters: A Response to James Laughlin" / Maurice Zolotow 223

"Letters: A Response to Maurice Zolotow" / Robert H. Elias 224

"Trade Winds" / Bennett Cerf 226

3. Veneration and Vituperation: The Making of a Celebrity 229

"Our Own Polo Guide: The Game Explained a la Gertrude Stein" / Anonymous 229

"Futurist Man's Dress to Be a One-Piece Suit..." / Marguerite Mooers Marshall 231

"The Same Book from Another Standpoint" / A. S. K. 233

"Gertrude Stein's Hints for the Table" / Don Marquis 233

"Gertrude Stein on the War" / Don Marquis 234

"To G. S. and E. P." / Don Marquis 235

"Thoughts of Hermione, a Modern Young Woman" / Don Marquis 236

"Gertrude Is Stein, Stein Gertrude" / Don Marquis 238

"Taking Up Music in a Serious Way" / Don Marquis 239

"Thoughts of Hermione" / Don Marquis 240

"The Golden Group" / Don Marquis 243

"Dr. Lowes Finds 'Tender Buttons' Poetic Asparagus" / Anonymous 244

"We Nominate for the Hall of Fame: Gertrude Stein" / Anonymous 246

"Literary Survey" / H. L. Mencken 246

"Two Futile Attempts to Rival the Style of Gertrude Stein" / Anonymous 248

"When Helen Furr Got Gay with Harold Moos" / K. D. 250

"A Visit from St. Nicholas" / Ruth Lambert Jones 252

"Gertrude Stein Interprets Accurately the National Political Situation" / Anonymous 252

"The True Story of My Break with Gertrude Stein" / Ernest Hemingway 254

"As a Critic Has a Headache" / Isaac Goldberg 255

"A Letter to Gertrude Stein" / Lindley Williams Hubbell 257

"The Autobiography of Alice B. Sullivan" / Frank Sullivan 258

"They Don't Speak English in Paris" / Ogden Nash 261

"Appeal to Gertrude" / Melville Cane 263

"Movie of a Man Trying to Read What Gertrude Stein Says About America" / Fred O. Seibel 265

"Gentlemen Prefer" / Charlotte Haldane 266

"To Gertrude Stein" / Maxwell Bodenheim 268

"Book Is a Book" / Anonymous 269

"Gertrude Was Always Giggling" / Arnold Ronnebeck 270

"Give Me Land: Gertrude Stein Talks About the Future of G. I.s" / Sgt. Scott Corbett 274

4. Remembrances, Memorials, and the Posthumous Reputation 279

"The Shape of Things" / Anonymous 279

"Letter from Paris" / Janet Flanner 280

"A Rose for Remembrance" / Harrison Smith 281

"The Literary Spotlight" / Fanny Butcher 284

"In Memoriam: Gertrude Stein, 1898" / L.W.S., M.L.E., L.S.E. 286

"Gertrude Stein: An Epilogue" / Carl Van Vechten 289

"Gertrude Stein" / Henry Rago 291

"Gertrude Stein Memorial" / Carl Van Vechten 294

"Proper and Improper Subject Matter: Time and Identity Is What You Tell About" / B. L. Reid 296

"Gertrude Stein and the Lesbian Lie" / Catharine R. Stimpson 309

"Notes from a Women's Biographer" / Linda Wagner-Martin 325

"Gertrude Stein's Jewishness, Jewish Social Scientists, and the 'Jewish Question,'" / Maria Damon 329

"Gertrude Stein and the Lost Ark" / Brenda Wineapple 344.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-359) and index.

ISBN:

0313304750

OCLC:

43333526