The Making Of Americans Family Saga

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547688129

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THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (Family Saga) by Gertrude Stein Pdf

The Making of Americans is a modernist novel that traces the genealogy, history, and psychological development of members of the fictional Hersland and Dehning families. Being ostensibly a history of three generations of and everyone they knew or knew them, the novel is a philosophical and poetic meditation on identity, on what it means to be human living an everyday, mundane life. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector, best known for Three Lives, The Making of Americans and Tender Buttons. Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. Picasso and Cubism were an important influence on Stein's writing. Her works are compared to James Joyce's Ulysses and to Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020346412

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The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein Pdf

"Essential for all literature collections . . . Several of Stein's titles returned to print in 1995, but none more important than The Making of Americans." Library Journal

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788075831897

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THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (Family Saga) by Gertrude Stein Pdf

The Making of Americans is a modernist novel that traces the genealogy, history, and psychological development of members of the fictional Hersland and Dehning families. Being ostensibly a history of three generations of and everyone they knew or knew them, the novel is a philosophical and poetic meditation on identity, on what it means to be human living an everyday, mundane life. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector, best known for Three Lives, The Making of Americans and Tender Buttons. Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. Picasso and Cubism were an important influence on Stein's writing. Her works are compared to James Joyce's Ulysses and to Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026867968

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THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (Modern Classics Series) by Gertrude Stein Pdf

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1950987132

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The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein Pdf

"It is more a monument than a text, a heroic achievement of writing, a near-impossible feat of reading." - Janet Malcolm, The New Yorker Gertrude Stein's comprehensive family saga story. A metafictional, pseudo-autobiographical anti-novel tracing the lineage of the Hersland and Dehning families.

Author : E. L. McCallum
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438468013

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Unmaking The Making of Americans by E. L. McCallum Pdf

Develops the sustained, relational, dynamic, and reflective attention demanded by Gertrude Stein’s novel into a theory of reading and critical analysis. Arguing that Gertrude Stein’s monumental novel The Making of Americans models a radically aesthetic relation to the world, E. L. McCallum demonstrates how the novel teaches us to read differently, unmaking our habits of reading. Each of the chapters works through close readings of Stein’s text and a philosophical interlocutor to track a series of theoretical questions: what forms queer time, what are the limits of story, how do we feel emotion, how can we agree on a shared reality if interpretation and imagination intervene, and how do particular media shape how we convey this rich experience? The formally innovative agenda and epistemological drive of Stein’s novel stages rich thought experiments that bear on questions that are central to some of the most vibrant conversations in literary studies today. In the midst of ongoing debates about the practices of reading, the difficulty of reading, and even the impossibility of reading, the moment has come to have a fuller critical engagement with this landmark novel. This book shows how. E. L. McCallum is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at Michigan State University and the author of Object Lessons: How to Do Things with Fetishism and coeditor (with Mikko Tuhkanen) of Queer Times, Queer Becomings, both also published by SUNY Press.

Author : Lucy Daniel
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781861897077

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Gertrude Stein by Lucy Daniel Pdf

“You are, of course, never yourself,” wrote Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) in Everybody’s Autobiography. Modernist icon Stein wrote many pseudo-autobiographies, including the well-known story of her lover, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas;but in Lucy Daniel’s Gertrude Stein the pen is turned directly on Stein, revealing the many selves that composed her inspiring and captivating life. Though American-born, Stein has been celebrated in many incarnations as the embodiment of French bohemia; she was a patron of modern art and writing, a gay icon, the coiner of the term “Lost Generation,” and the hostess of one of the most famous artistic salons. Welcomed into Stein’s art-covered living room were the likes of Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway, and Pound. But—perhaps because of the celebrated names who made up her social circle—Stein has remained one of the most recognizable and yet least-known of the twentieth-century’s major literary figures, despite her immense and varied body of work. With detailed reference to her writings, Stein’s own collected anecdotes, and even the many portraits painted of her, Lucy Daniel discusses how the legend of Gertrude Stein was created, both by herself and her admirers, and gives much-needed attention to the continuing significance and influence of Stein’s literary works. A fresh and readable biography of one of the major Modernist writers, Gertrude Stein will appeal to a wide audience interested in Stein’s contributions to avant-garde writing, and twentieth century art and literature in general.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474244220

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The Modes of Modern Writing by David Lodge Pdf

The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the fundamental questions we all encounter when studying or reading literature, such as: what is literature? What is realism? What is relationship between form and content? And what dictates the shifts in literary fashions and tastes? In answering these questions, the book examines texts by a wide range of modern novelists and poets, including James Joyce, T.S.Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and Philip Larkin, and draws on the work of literary theorists from Roman Jakobson to Roland Barthes. Written in Lodge's typically accessible style this is essential reading for students and lovers of literature at any level. The Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new Foreword/Afterword by the author.

Author : Christopher J. Knight
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0838752969

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The Patient Particulars by Christopher J. Knight Pdf

"The Patient Particulars: American Modernism and the Technique of Originality is a literary history that focuses on four canonical texts - Stein's Tender Buttons (1914), Hemingway's In Our Time (1925), Williams's Spring and All (1923), and Moore's Observations (1924) - grouped together for the purpose of raising a question about the manner in which American literary modernism is traditionally described. Author Christopher J. Knight is interested in the way that the classical "covenant between word and world," now considered fractured, experienced undue pressure from the modernists' earlier project to bridge the gap. With respect to the texts named, Knight argues that there is an evinced desire to think of the work as a vertical, veridical act of discovery. There is, as such, an ambition to collapse representation into presentation and even revelation; an ambition that, while quixotic, is not without formal ("the technique of originality") and political consequences. These consequences are, in fact, the main focus of the book, and in turn, are brought forward to ask further questions about how we periodize American literary modernism(s)."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Václav Paris
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198868217

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The Evolutions of Modernist Epic by Václav Paris Pdf

Explores how modernist national narrative successively reimagined the evolutionary epic from the 1910s to the 1930s.

Author : Sean McCann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400828906

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A Pinnacle of Feeling by Sean McCann Pdf

There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. A Pinnacle of Feeling is the first book to examine twentieth-century literature's deep fascination with the modern presidency and with the ideas about the relationship between state power and democracy that underwrote the rise of presidential authority. Sean McCann challenges prevailing critical interpretations through revelatory new readings of major writers, including Richard Wright, Gertrude Stein, Henry Roth, Zora Neale Hurston, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Norman Mailer, Don Delillo, and Philip Roth. He argues that these writers not only represented or satirized presidents, but echoed political thinkers who cast the chief executive as the agent of the sovereign will of the American people. They viewed the president as ideally a national redeemer, and they took that ideal as a model and rival for their own work. A Pinnacle of Feeling illuminates the fundamental concern with democratic sovereignty that informs the most innovative literary works of the twentieth century, and shows how these works helped redefine and elevate the role of executive power in American culture.

Author : Brenda Wineapple
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803233701

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Sister Brother by Brenda Wineapple Pdf

Devoted, eccentric, and compelling, Gertrude and Leo Stein were constant companions, from childhood to adulthood, until, finally, they spoke no more. Americans, expatriates, and virtually orphans, they lived together for almost forty years, collaborating in one of the great artistic and literary adventures of the twentieth century. Sister Brother tells the story of that adventure and relationship. With a personality that drew people toward her?regardless of what they thought of her inventive, hermetic prose?Gertrude Stein dazzled and perplexed. Enigmatic, intelligent, and self-absorbed, Leo also dazzled but in his own way. One of the crucial figures in Gertrude?s early years, he was the original guiding spirit of the famed salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, which continued for almost two decades. From her early days as a medical student to her first days in Paris, Gertrude was passionately driven toward the career in which she distinguished herself, demanding appreciation as an exceptional writer who knew precisely what she intended. This book shows how Gertrude slowly struggled with what became a unique voice?and why her brother spurned it. ø With its wealth of new and rare material, its reconstruction of Leo?s famed art collection, and its array of characters?from Bernard Berenson to Pablo Picasso?this biography offers the first glimpse into the smoldering sibling relationship that helped form two of the twentieth century?s most unusual figures.

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743436540

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Three Lives by Gertrude Stein Pdf

The first published work of fiction by legendary author and poet Gertrude Stein, Three Lives is a collection of two short stories and a novella focusing on the bleak existence that faced immigrant and minority women in turn-of-the-century America. Each impoverished woman must labor as a domestic worker to survive, and all three protagonists have their own tales of hardship. "The Good Anna" tells the story of a young German servant who must decide between loyalty to her employer and love. In "The Gentle Lena," another German servant girl marries the wrong man, and finds herself trapped as a wife and mother. And the introspective "Melanctha" examines the tragic life of a mulatto woman and those she loved. Pocket Books' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enriched for the contemporary reader. This edition of Three Lives has been prepared by Brenda Wineapple, professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies at Union College. It includes her introduction, a selection of critical excerpts, and suggestions for further reading, as well as a unique visual essay of period illustrations and photographs.

Author : Callie Gardner
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786949394

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Poetry & Barthes by Callie Gardner Pdf

The influence of Roland Barthes on contemporary culture has been the subject of much analysis, but never before has this influence been closely examined in relation to poetry. This innovative study traces Anglophone poetry’s response to the literary and cultural theory of Barthes — from debate to adoption, adaptation and rejection.

Author : Calum Gardner
Publisher : Poetry and Lup
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786941367

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Poetry & Barthes by Calum Gardner Pdf

What kinds of pleasure do we take from writing and reading? What authority has the writer over a text? What are the limits of language's ability to communicate ideas and emotions? Moreover, what are the political limitations of these questions? The work of the French cultural critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915-80) poses these questions, and has become influential in doing so, but the precise nature of that influence is often taken for granted. This is nowhere more true than in poetry, where Barthes' concerns about pleasure and origin are assumed to be relevant, but this has seldom been closely examined. This innovative study traces the engagement with Barthes by poets writing in English, beginning in the early 1970s with one of Barthes' earliest Anglophone poet readers, Scottish poet-theorist Veronica Forrest-Thomson (194775). It goes on to examine the American poets who published in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E and other small but influential journals of the period, and other writers who engaged with Barthes later, considering his writings' relevance to love and grief and their treatment in poetry. Finally, it surveys those writers who rejected Barthes' theory, and explores why this was. The first study to bring Barthes and poetry into such close contact, this important book illuminates both subjects with a deep contemplation of Barthes' work and a range of experimental poetries.