Narration

Four Lectures

By:

Gertrude Stein

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Paperback / softback

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Newly famous in the wake of the publication of her groundbreaking Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein delivered her Narration lectures to packed audiences at the University of Chicago in 1935. Stein had not been back to her home country since departing for France in 1903, and her remarks reflect on the changes in American culture after thirty years abroad. In Stein’s trademark experimental prose, Narration reveals the legendary writer’s thoughts about the energy and mobility of the American people, the effect of modernism on literary form, the nature of history and its recording, and the inventiveness of the English language—in particular, its American variant. Stein also discusses her ambivalence toward her own literary fame as well as the destabilizing effect that notoriety had on her daily life. Restored to print for a new generation of readers to discover, these vital lectures will delight students and scholars of modernism and twentieth-century literature. “Narration is a treasure waiting to be rediscovered and to be pirated by jolly marauders of sparkling texts.”—Catharine Stimpson, NYU

Author Biography:

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was one of the most important American literary modernists. She is the author of many books, including The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and Three Lives.

Release date Australia

May 1st, 2010

Author

Gertrude Stein

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Foreword by Liesl M. Olson
Introduction by Thornton Wilder

Pages

Dimensions

16x20x1

ISBN-13

9780226771540

Product ID

4277679

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