Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Families
ISBN : UCBK:B000782793
The Making of Americans
Gertrude Stein
The Steiny Road To Operadom
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The Steiny Road to Operadom
Karren LaLonde Alenier
Author : Karren LaLonde Alenier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Opera
ISBN : 1588321924
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Two Serious Ladies
Jane Bowles
Author : Jane Bowles
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 147462040X
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles Pdf
'My favourite book. I can't think of a modern novel that seems more likely to become a classic' Tennessee Williams 'The book I give as a gift . . . It feels like giving someone an exotic fruit' Sheila Heti 'A modern legend . . . A very funny writer' Truman Capote 'Profoundly witty, genuinely unusual in its apprehensions, and bracingly, humanely true' Claire Messud I am going on a trip. Wait until I tell you about it. it's terrible. Miss Goering, an eccentric, impulsive New York heiress, resides in her house and tries not to be unhappy. Mrs Copperfield, an anxious, dutiful married woman, has a great fear of drowning, of lifts, of intruders in the night. Two serious ladies, nothing is natural for them and anything is possible. For Mrs Copperfield - a trip to Panama, where she abandons her husband for love of a local prostitute. For Miss Goering - a move to a squalid little house on an island and a series of sordid encounters with strangers. Both go to pieces -and both realise this is something they've wanted to do for years. With an introduction by Naoise Dolan A W&N Essential
To Do
Gertrude Stein
Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300170979
To Do by Gertrude Stein Pdf
Written in 1940 and intended as a follow-up to Stein's children's book "The World Is Round," published the previous year, "To Do" is a fanciful journey through the alphabet.
Tender Buttons
Gertrude Stein
Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2200000109842
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein Pdf
"Tender Buttons" by Gertrude Stein is a linguistic and stylistic experiment that defies conventional norms of prose and poetry. Published in 1914, the work is divided into three sections—Objects, Food, and Rooms—each challenging readers to engage with language in a new and unconventional manner. Stein's use of repetitive and abstract language creates a unique reading experience, inviting interpretation and exploration of meaning beyond traditional literary boundaries. A seminal piece in the realm of modernist literature, "Tender Buttons" remains a complex and influential work that continues to captivate those intrigued by innovative approaches to language and expression.
Bury Me Standing
Isabel Fonseca
Author : Isabel Fonseca
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307761040
Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca Pdf
A masterful work of personal reportage, this volume is also a vibrant portrait of a mysterious people and an essential document of a disappearing culture. Fabled, feared, romanticized, and reviled, the Gypsies—or Roma—are among the least understood people on earth. Their culture remains largely obscure, but in Isabel Fonseca they have found an eloquent witness. In Bury Me Standing, alongside unforgettable portraits of individuals—the poet, the politician, the child prostitute—Fonseca offers sharp insights into the humor, language, wisdom, and taboos of the Roma. She traces their exodus out of India 1,000 years ago and their astonishing history of persecution: enslaved by the princes of medieval Romania; massacred by the Nazis; forcibly assimilated by the communist regimes; evicted from their settlements in Eastern Europe, and most recently, in Western Europe as well. Whether as handy scapegoats or figments of the romantic imagination, the Gypsies have always been with us—but never before have they been brought so vividly to life. Includes fifty black and white photos.
The Book of Salt
Monique Truong
Author : Monique Truong
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547524993
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong Pdf
A novel of Paris in the 1930s from the eyes of the Vietnamese cook employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, by the author of The Sweetest Fruits. Viewing his famous mesdames and their entourage from the kitchen of their rue de Fleurus home, Binh observes their domestic entanglements while seeking his own place in the world. In a mesmerizing tale of yearning and betrayal, Monique Truong explores Paris from the salons of its artists to the dark nightlife of its outsiders and exiles. She takes us back to Binh's youthful servitude in Saigon under colonial rule, to his life as a galley hand at sea, to his brief, fateful encounters in Paris with Paul Robeson and the young Ho Chi Minh. Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, Village Voice, Seattle Times, Miami Herald, San Jose Mercury News, and others “An irresistible, scrupulously engineered confection that weaves together history, art, and human nature…a veritable feast.”—Los Angeles Times “A debut novel of pungent sensuousness and intricate, inspired imagination…a marvelous tale.”—Elle “Addictive…Deliciously written…Both eloquent and original.”—Entertainment Weekly “A mesmerizing narrative voice, an insider's view of a fabled literary household and the slow revelation of heartbreaking secrets contribute to the visceral impact of this first novel.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
Composition as Explanation
Gertrude Stein
Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2200000109828
Composition as Explanation by Gertrude Stein Pdf
Gertrude Stein's "Composition as Explanation" delves into the intricate relationship between language and artistic expression. Published in 1926, the essay explores Stein's unique approach to writing and challenges conventional perceptions of composition. With a distinctive prose style, she reflects on the nature of creativity, emphasizing the significance of repetition and abstraction. Stein's work serves as both an exploration of her own artistic process and a broader commentary on the essence of language in shaping our understanding of art.
How We Hold On
Karren LaLonde Alenier
Author : Karren LaLonde Alenier
Publisher : Broadstone Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1937968804
How We Hold On by Karren LaLonde Alenier Pdf
Poetry. The title of Karren Alenier's new collection, HOW WE HOLD ON, seems especially timely, appearing at the end of a year of pandemic dislocations. But though Covid does make an appearance here, her themes are far broader, timeless and universal: how we love, how we deal with loss, how we find our place in the world, how we relate to family and heritage, all topics to which she attends. In the poem "Homecoming" Alenier writes of the Greek word parea, for which there is no exact English equivalent, a term for a group of friends who delight in one another's company, for the joy of sharing experiences: "how / most importantly we can love / and help each other through / celebration / and sorrow." In a very real sense, this collection is her invitation for us to join her parea, and to share in her celebrations and her sorrows. She writes poignantly of her father and especially her "partygirl mother" who attempted to make "girl talk...with a daughter who read books she did not understand." They and other family people the first two sections of the book. The third section, "when it drops you gonna feel it" takes place largely on Jamaica, a place dear to her and her late husband Jim (to whom the book is dedicated), for which reason it also has pride of place on the cover of the book. In the final section, many poems are letters written to her "Zayda Isaac," a great-grandfather who died in the previous pandemic of 1918, to whom she was introduced through keepsakes, eyeglasses and letters, "things a loving widow showed / a fiveyearold me," with whom she now reaches a new understanding: "and now 2020 / year of perfect vision a new pandemic this / widow me /sees." In the title poem, reflecting on the things her late mother and husband chose to keep closed away in chests, she writes, "in my chest an aging heart brims / with blood both beautiful and swift." That blood courses through these pages, and they brim with life--with its celebration, and with its sorrow.
Strange Attractors
Sarah Glaz,Joanne Growney
Author : Sarah Glaz,Joanne Growney
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781439865187
Strange Attractors by Sarah Glaz,Joanne Growney Pdf
Strange Attractors is a collection of approximately 150 poems with strong links to mathematics in content, form, or imagery. The common theme is love, and the editors draw from its various manifestations-romantic love, spiritual love, humorous love, love between parents and children, mathematicians in love, love of mathematics. The poets include li
"We Met in Paris"
Joan E Howard
Author : Joan E Howard
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826274045
"We Met in Paris" by Joan E Howard Pdf
Grace Frick introduced English-language readers all over the world to the distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning translation of Yourcenar’s novel Memoirs of Hadrian in 1954. European biographies of Yourcenar have often disparaged Frick and her relationship with Yourcenar, however. This work shows Frick as a person of substance in her own right, and paints a portrait of both women that is at once intimate and scrupulously documented. It contains a great deal of new information that will disrupt long-held beliefs about Yourcenar and may even shock some of her scholars and fans.
White Heat
Brenda Wineapple
Author : Brenda Wineapple
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307456304
White Heat by Brenda Wineapple Pdf
White Heat is the first book to portray the remarkable relationship between America's most beloved poet and the fiery abolitionist who first brought her work to the public. As the Civil War raged, an unlikely friendship was born between the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a literary figure who ran guns to Kansas and commanded the first Union regiment of black soldiers. When Dickinson sent Higginson four of her poems he realized he had encountered a wholly original genius; their intense correspondence continued for the next quarter century. In White Heat Brenda Wineapple tells an extraordinary story about poetry, politics, and love, one that sheds new light on her subjects and on the roiling America they shared.
Prepare for Saints
Steven Watson
Author : Steven Watson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307822734
Prepare for Saints by Steven Watson Pdf
Perhaps the oddest and most influential collaboration in the history of American modernism was hatched in 1926, when a young Virgil Thomson knocked on Gertrude Stein's door in Paris. Eight years later, their opera Four Saints in Three Acts became a sensation--the longest-running opera in Broadway history to date and the most widely reported cultural event of its time. Four Saints was proclaimed the birth of a new art form, a cellophane fantasy, "cubism on stage." It swept the public imagination, inspiring new art and new language, and defied every convention of what an opera should be. Everything about it was revolution-ary: Stein's abstract text and Thomson's homespun music, the all-black cast, the costumes, and the com-bustible sets. Moving from the Wadsworth Atheneum to Broadway, Four Saints was the first popular modernist production. It brought modernism, with all its flamboyant outrage against convention, into the mainstream. This is the story of how that opera came to be. It involves artists, writers, musicians, salon hostesses, and an underwear manufacturer with an appetite for publicity. The opera's success depended on a handful of Harvard-trained men who shaped America's first museums of modern art. The elaborately intertwined lives of the collaborators provide a window onto the pioneering generation that defined modern taste in America in the 1920s and 1930s. A brilliant cultural historian with a talent for bringing the past to life, Steven Watson spent ten years researching and writing this book, interviewing many of the collaborators and performers. Prepare for Saints is the first book to describe this pivotal moment in American cultural history. It does so with a spirit and irreverence worthy of its subject. NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.
The Steins Collect
Janet C. Bishop,Cécile Debray,Rebecca A. Rabinow,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,Grand Palais (Paris, France),Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Author : Janet C. Bishop,Cécile Debray,Rebecca A. Rabinow,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,Grand Palais (Paris, France),Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300169418
The Steins Collect by Janet C. Bishop,Cécile Debray,Rebecca A. Rabinow,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,Grand Palais (Paris, France),Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 21-Sept. 6, 2011, the Reunion des Musees Nationaux-Grand Palais, Paris, Oct. 3, 2011-Jan. 16, 2012, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Feb. 21-June 3, 2012.
Looking for Divine Transportation
Karren LaLonde Alenier
Author : Karren LaLonde Alenier
Publisher : Bunny and Crocodile Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0938572245