Approaches to teaching the works of Gertrude Stein / edited by Logan Esdale and Deborah M. Mix.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Esdale, Logan, editor.

Mix, Deborah M., editor.

Series:

Approaches to teaching world literature

Approaches to teaching world literature ; 152

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946--Study and teaching.

Stein, Gertrude.

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.

Study skills.

Physical Description:

vii, 248 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2018.

Contents:

Part 1 Materials / Logan Esdale and Deborah M. Mix

Family Life and Education p. 3

Transatlantic Stein p. 4

Alice Toklas p. 9

Yale Archive p. 12

Critical Reception p. 18

Influence p. 20

Part 2 Approaches

Introduction p. 31 / Logan Esdale and Deborah M. Mix

Narrative Prose p. 40

Teaching Q. E. D. p. 40 / Jonathan Goldberg and Michael Moon and Wenwen Guo

Teaching Race, Gender, and Narrative Form in "Mclanctha" p. 47 / Corinne E. Blackmer

Americans Aloud p. 53 / E. L. McCallum

Teaching Comparative Stylistics: Gendered Language in Stein and Hemingway p. 60 / Laurel Bollinger

Cultivating a Critical Edge: Teaching The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in the College Writing Classroom p. 67 / J. Ashley Foster

"The Picture Seemed to Her Perfectly Natural": Portraiture as Teaching Strategy in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas p. 74 / Meg Albrinck

Student to Student: Stein and Crimes of Convention p. 79 / Lee Rumbarger

Narration and American Identity in Stein's Later Prose Works p. 87 / Rebecca Walsh

Engaging Gertrude Steins Wars I Have Seen as Secondary Witnesses p. 94 / Elisabeth Hedrick-Moser

Poetry and Portraits p. 101

Teaching Diversity to Undergraduates via Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons and Other Texts from Selected Writings p. 101 / Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick

The Tender Buttons of Avant-Garde Self-Assertion: Teaching Gertrude Stein's Feminism p. 107 / Kimberly Lamm

Teaching a Compositional Approach to Gertrude Stein's Portraiture p. 114 / Linda Voris

"A Violent Kind of Delightfulness": Enjoying Tender Buttons p. 121 / Roger Gilbert

Approaching Tender Buttons from Three Directions p. 130 / Leonard Diepeveen

"What Is the Difference": Teaching Gender and Sexuality in "Patriarchal Poetry" through a Cultural Studies Approach p. 137 / Jody Cardinal

"To Say Which of Two": Reading Stanzas in Meditation in the Undergraduate Classroom p. 144 / Susannah Hollister and Emily Setina

Plays and Operas p. 151

Exercises in Group Analysis: Sounding Out Stein's Plays p. 151 / Adam Frank

Performing Stein, Inviting Affect p. 158 / James Peck

"To Know to Know to Love Her So": Teaching Gertrude Stein's Operas to First-Time Stein Readers p. 164 / Michelle J. Brazier

A Seriously Playful Pedagogy for Gertrude Stein's Late, Great Opera, The Mother of Us All p. 172 / Patricia A. Schechter

Creative Principles p. 178

A Rose Is a Rose Is a ... Thesis Statement: Gertrude Stein in the First-Year Writing Classroom p. 178 / Erica J. Kaufman

"All Alone with English": Teaching Stein in a Multilingual Context p. 184 / Jane Malcolm

"The Inside on the Outside": Teaching Stein's Lectures in America p. 190 / Stacy Carson Hubbard

Pictures, Portraits, and Resemblance p. 196 / Loretta Stec

Someone Puts a Stein Apple Together: Ways to Widen a Workshop p. 202 / Laura Mullen

The Bothersome Pleasures of Teaching Stein p. 210 / Sharon J. Kirsch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781603293440

1603293442

9781603293433

1603293434

OCLC:

1013819301