Tender Buttons: Objects Food Rooms - Softcover

Stein, Gertrude

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1453619941 ISBN 13: 9781453619940

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2008

Synopsis

Tender Buttons: objects, food, rooms is the title of a 1914 book by Gertrude Stein consisting of word clusters chosen for their prosody, juxtaposed for the purpose of subverting commonplace dictionary meanings which Stein believed had largely lost their expressive force and ability to communicate. The words were re-defined using both their etymology and analysis of syllables by themselves.

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About the Author

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874–1914, and the second with her partner Alice B. Toklas, from 1907 until Stein's death in 1946. Stein shared her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice. Throughout her lifetime, Stein also cultivated significant relationships with well-known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1453619941
• ISBN 13: 9781453619940
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 74
• Editor: Bair Christopher