Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

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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Literary criticism

Ashbery, John. "The Impossible," by poet John Ashbery, on Stein's Stanzas in Meditation. From Poetry magazine, July, 1957.

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)." Modern Language Studies 27 (Spring 1997).

Conte, Joseph. Professor Conte's syllabus: 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. Postmodern Culture 5 (May, 1995).

Olson, Liesl M. "Gertrude Stein, William James, and habit in the shadow of war." Twentieth Century Literature (Fall, 2003).

Perloff, Marjorie. "The Difference is Spreading: on Gertrude Stein." American Poet, 2000.

Introduction

Reputable criticism on Gertrude Stein and her writing including "Stein's Life and Career" by Linda Wagner-Martin; "Patriarchal Poetry" by Karen Ford. The Modern American Poetry site at the Univ. of Illinois.

Leick, Karen. An introduction to Gertrude Stein from the Literary Encyclopedia 28 March 2003. On The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933).

"Gertrude Stein." A brief introduction, with links to poems and articles. Also "Groundbreaking Book: Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein (1914)." Academy of American Poets.

"Gertrude Stein Online." A web site by Sonja Streuber, publishes online critical articles on Gertrude Stein, a summary of a Gertrude Stein panel discussion at MLA in 1999.

"Gertrude Stein--brief biography." Professor Al Filreis's web site.

Discussion guide for teachers and readers of Gertrude Stein's poetry, from Heath.

"Modernist Portraits: Gertrude Stein." A web site on teaching Gertrude Stein. "American Passages," PBS.

"Gertrude Stein." Web page from the Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY Buffalo contains good links to texts, articles, and lectures on Stein.

Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein, with notes about the painting, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

"Leo and Gertrude Stein." The Twentieth Century: American Modernist Writers. A Yale Library exhibition documents the influence of Oriental aesthetics on American Modernists.

Voice of the Poet: Five American Women. Readings by Gertrude Stein and four other poets. Random House.

Removed articles

Luria-Sukenick, Lynn and Marianne DeKoven. "Two Reappreciations Of Gertrude Stein," two brief articles in HOW(ever) 3 (January 1986) (moved or removed).

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 16 (May 1998) (moved or removed).

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 (moved or removed).

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