A selective list of literary criticism for the American expatriate experimentalist, poet, novelist, and autobiographer, Gertrude Stein, including signed articles by recognized scholars, peer and editor reviewed articles, and web sites that follow MLA guidelines for web pages.
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Ashbery, John. "The Impossible," by poet John Ashbery, on Stein's Stanzas in Meditation. Originally in Poetry magazine, July, 1957; provided by Professor Al Filreis.
Conte, Joseph. "The Smooth and the Striated: Compositional Texture in the Modern Long Poem." "The 'smooth texts' among twentieth-century long poems might include Gertrude Stein's Stanzas in Meditation (1932)." In Modern Language Studies 27 (Spring 1997): 57-71.
Conte, Joseph. Professor Joseph Conte's syllabus for English 633: Poetic Texture: The Smooth and the Striated in Postmodern Poetry, Fall 2001
Frost, Elizabeth A. "Signifyin(g) on Stein: The Revisionist Poetics of Harryette Mullen and Leslie Scalapino" On the influence of Stein's poetics on two contemporary feminist avant-guard poets. In Postmodern Culture v.5 n.3 (May, 1995)
Leick, Karen. An introduction to Gertrude Stein from the Literary Encyclopedia 28 March 2003 On The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
Luria-Sukenick, Lynn and Marianne DeKoven. "Two Reappreciations Of Gertrude Stein," two brief articles in HOW(ever) Vol. 3, No. 1 (January 1986) (taken offline from http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/print_archive/alerts0186.html)
Olson, Liesl M. Gertrude Stein, William James, and habit in the shadow of war in Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 2003
Stimpson, Catherine R. and Harriet Chessman, eds. A review of the two-volume Gertrude Stein (Library of America). Reviewed by Donald Lyons in The New Criterion, Vol. 16, No. 9, May 1998 (taken offline or moved)
Williams, William Carols. An essay on Stein's work by poet William Carlos Williams originally in Imaginations (1970), reprinted at the Center for Book Culture (taken offline or moved)
Reputable criticism on Gertrude Stein and her writing including "Stein's Life and Career" by Linda Wagner-Martin, On "Patriarchal Poetry" by Karen Ford. The Modern American Poetry site at the Univ. of Illinois.
A web site on Gertrude Stein by Sonja Streuber, publishes online critical articles on Gertrude Stein, a summary of a Gertrude Stein panel discussion at MLA in 1999, and more.
A short biography of Gertrude Stein from Professor Al Filreis's English 88 site at Univ. of Penn.
Discussion questions for teachers and readers of Gertrude Stein's poetry, from Heath guides (moved or removed).
A web site on teaching Gertrude Stein from the Annenberg/PBS project "American Passages."
The Gertrude Stein page from the Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY Buffalo contains links to some primary texts and audio files of lectures on Stein.
Picasso's famous portrait of Gertrude Stein, along with some notes about the painting, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A Yale Library exhibition documents the influence of Oriental aesthetics on American Modernists including Gertrude Stein and others.
An article on Voice of the Poet, which includes readings by Gertrude Stein and four other women poets. Random House
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