Narration : four lectures / by Gertrude Stein ; with an introduction by Thornton Wilder ; foreword by Liesl M. Olson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.

Contributor:

Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (84 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Stein had not been back to her home country since departing for France in 1903, and her remarks reflect on the changes in American culture after thirty years abroad.In Stein's trademark experimental prose, Narration reveals the legendary writer's thoughts about the energy and mobility of the American people, the effect of modernism on literary f

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

LECTURE 1

LECTURE 2

LECTURE 3

LECTURE 4

Notes:

Lectures delivered by Gertrude Stein in 1935 at the University of Chicago.

Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1935.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612585043

9781282585041

1282585045

9780226771557

0226771555

OCLC:

635292119