Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises - 1923-1934 (Avant-garde and Modernism Studies) - Softcover

Dydo, Ulla E.; Rice, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810125269 ISBN 13: 9780810125261

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2009

Synopsis

The first extensive examination of Stein's notebooks, manuscripts and letters, prepared over a period of twenty years, Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises asks new questions and explores new ways of reading Stein. This definitive study give us a finely detailed, deeply felt understanding of Stein, the great modernist, throughout one of her most productive periods. From "An Elucidation" in 1923 to Lectures In America in 1934, Ulla E. Dydo examines the process of the making and remaking of Stein's texts as they move from notepad to notebook to manuscript, from an idea to the ultimate refinement of the author's intentions. The result is an unprecedented view of the development of Stein's work, word by word, text by text, and over time.

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About the Author

Ulla E. Dydo is Professor Emerita at the City University of New York and is considered to be one of the world's foremost Stein scholars. She is also the editor of A Stein Reader (Northwestern, 1993) and the co-editor of The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder (Yale University Press, 1996). She lives in New York City.

William Rice (1931–2006) worked with Ulla Dydo on A Stein Reader and with Edward Burns and Ulla Dydo on various editions of Stein’s letters. A painter, he conducted extensive research on Picasso’s notebooks for Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810125269
• ISBN 13: 9780810125261
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704