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Lexington Books Primary Stein Returning to the Writing of Gertrude Stein 2014 Edition by Janet Boyd, Sharon J. Kirsch, Adam Frank, E.L. McCallum
Recent scholarly trends and controversies in Gertrude Stein scholarship have focused on her politics and her friendships as well as on Stein the collector, the celebrity, the visual icon. Clearly, these recent examinations not only deepen our understanding of Stein but also attest to her staying power. Yet Stein's writing itself too often remains secondary. The central premise of Primary Stein is that an extraordinary amount of textual scholarship remains to be done on Stein's work, whether the well-known, the little-known, or yet unpublished. The essays in Primary Stein draw on recent interdisciplinary examinations, using cultural and historical contexts to enrich and complicate how we might read, understand, and teach Stein's writing. Following Stein's own efforts throughout her lifetime to shift the focus from her personality to her writing, these innovative essays turn the lens back to a wide range of her texts, including novels, plays, lectures and poetry. Each essay takes Stein's primary works as its core interpretive focus, returning scholarly conversations to the challenges and pleasures of working with Stein's texts. Table of contents :- ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. A Primer for Primary SteinSharon J. Kirsch and Janet BoydChapter 1. Make It Plain: Stein and Toklas Publish the Plain EditionGabrielle DeanChapter 2. Woolfenstein, the SequelRachel Blau DuPlessisChapter 3. "Come too": 1920s Erotic Rights Discourse and Gertrude Stein's "Patriarchal Poetry"Jody CardinalChapter 4. Long Dull Poems: Stein's Stanzas in Meditation and Wordsworth's The Prelude Rebecca Ariel PorteChapter 5. tender buttons, notwithstandingNeil SchmitzChapter 6. How to Read How to Write: Bothering with Gertrude SteinSharon J. KirschChapter 7. Framing Devices: Reading Background in the Sequence of Gertrude Stein's CompositionLinda VorisChapter 8. Radio Free Stein: Rendering Queen and CountryAdam FrankChapter 9. "A Spare American Emotion" E. L. McCallumChapter 10. "More light!-Electric Light." Stein in Dialogue with the Romantic Paradigm in Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights Sarah PosmanChapter 11. Gertrude Stein's Geographical History of LiteratureJanet BoydChapter 12. Modernist and Future Ex-Modernist: Postwar SteinKristin BergenChapter 13. History, Narrative, and "Daily Living" in Wars I Have SeenPhoebe SteinChapter 14. Mrs. Reynolds: Stein's Anti-Nazi NovelSteven Gould AxelrodAppendix A: A Note on the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers in the Twenty-First CenturyNancy KuhlAppendix B: "The Gertrude Stein Collection" reprinted from The Yale Gazette 22.2 (October 1947)Donald Gallup IndexNotes on contributors