By Gertrude Stein,Liesl M. Olson,Thornton Wilder
Newly recognized within the wake of the e-book of her groundbreaking Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein brought her Narration lectures to packed audiences on the college of Chicago in 1935. Stein had now not been again to her domestic kingdom on account that departing for France in 1903, and her feedback examine the adjustments in American tradition after thirty years abroad.
In Stein’s trademark experimental prose, Narration unearths the mythical writer’s ideas concerning the power and mobility of the yank humans, the influence of modernism on literary shape, the character of historical past and its recording, and the inventiveness of the English language—in specific, its American variation. Stein additionally discusses her ambivalence towards her personal literary reputation in addition to the destabilizing impact that notoriety had on her lifestyle. Restored to print for a brand new new release of readers to find, those important lectures will pride scholars and students of modernism and twentieth-century literature.
“Narration is a treasure ready to be rediscovered and to be pirated via jolly marauders of gleaming texts.”—Catharine Stimpson, NYU
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