Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writing and Lectures, 1909-45 - Softcover

Stein, Gertrude

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0720612012 ISBN 13: 9780720612011

Publisher: Peter Owen, 2004

Synopsis

Gertrude Stein's radical innovations and continual experiments with language were years ahead of her time. More than any other writer, Stein reflects the last century's revolt from the fine arts. Gertrude Stein was one of the most colourful personalities of the literary world during the inter-war years. This volume of her writings attempts to dispel some of the misunderstanding that surrounds her work, presenting many of her lectures for the first time. Look at Me Now includes portraits of people (Matisse, Lipschitz, Picasso, Henry James and others), portraits of objects, her poetry, her novel Ida and her last work, Brewsie and Willie. Her lectures reveal a precise and original scheme behind her writing, drawing on concepts from William James's theories of the aesthetic to Bergson's notion of time. This accessible anthology presents the best of her startling achievements.

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Review:

This excellent anthology allows us to approach her way of thought from several mutually complementary angles -- Times Educational Supplement

Synopsis:

This volume of Gertrude Stein's writings attempts to dispel the obscurity and misunderstanding that surround her work, by presenting for the first time in this country many of her lectures which clearly explain her philosophies and include her portraits of people and objects to encourage readers to make their own assessment of her literary importance.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Owen
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0720612012
• ISBN 13: 9780720612011
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 419