Gertrude Stein : the language that rises, 1923-1934 / Ulla E. Dydo, with William Rice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dydo, Ulla E., 1925-

Contributor:

Rice, William, 1931-2006.

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

Avant-garde and modernism studies

Avant-garde & modernism studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946--Criticism, Textual.

Stein, Gertrude.

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.

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

Women and literature.

Criticism, Textual.

United States.

History.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

xvi, 686 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2003.

Summary:

The first extensive examination of Stein's notebooks, manuscripts and letters, prepared over a period of twenty years, Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises asks new questions and explores new ways of reading Stein. This definitive study give us a finely detailed, deeply felt understanding of Stein, the great modernist, throughout one of her most productive periods.

From "An Elucidation" in 1923 to Lectures In America in 1934, Ulla E. Dydo examines the process of the making and remaking of Stein's texts as they move from notepad to notebook to manuscript, from an idea to the ultimate refinement of the author's intentions. Though not a biography, Dydo's book sets each text in the context of Stein's daily life and work, showing how her immediate world enters her writing, to be enlarged upon, deleted, transformed, or combined with other elements of reading or remembering. The result is an unprecedented view of the development of Stein's work, word by word, text by text, and over time.

Contents:

Entrances 3

The Voice of Gertrude Stein 11

Reading the Hand Writing 23

1 1923: "An Elucidation" 43

2 1926: "Composition As Explanation" 77

3 1927: "Patriarchal Poetry" 133

4 1927: Four Saints In Three Acts 165

5 1928: "Finally George A Vocabulary Of Thinking" 212

6 1928-30: Georges Hugnet: "George Hugnet" 278

7 1928-30: Grammar 324

8 1930-31: History 410

9 1932: "Stanzas In Meditation" 471

10 1932-34: The Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas 534

11 1933-35: Lecturing 595.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 645-659) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

0810119196

OCLC:

50960856