Synopses & Reviews
"Kellner offers a group of essays on Stein by some recent authorities, such as Marianne DeKoven, Ulla Dydo, Majorie Perloff. A section of writings about Stein includes poems by Mina Loy, Vassar Miller, and others. The most valuable section is the 156-page biographical dictionary, a bio-sketch listing most, if not all, of the people mentioned in Stein's writings, including published letters; it is a godsend to initiates needing landmarks and to aficionados wanting quick review for accuracy of reference. A collection, `Gertrude Stein's ABC,' forms a handy encapsulated survey of her pronouncements from a wide range of her writings. . . . No book on the market is even remotely like it. It stands alone in its simplicity, range, and helpfulness." Choice
Synopsis
"No book on the market is even remotely like it. It stands alone in its simplicity, range, and helpfulness." Choice
About the Author
BRUCE KELLNER is a Professor of English at Millersville University in Pennsylvania.
Table of Contents
Introduction: How to Read Gertrude Stein by Bruce Kellner
Ex Libris: The Published Writings of Gertrude Stein by Bruce Kellner
Compositions as Explanations
Half In and Half Out of Doors: Gertrude Stein and Literary Tradition by Marianne DeKoven
Reading the Hand Writing: The Manuscripts of Gertrude Stein by Ulla Dydo
Six Stein Styles in Search of a Reader by Marjorie Perloff
Hommage a Gertrude Stein by Shirley B. Anders
Ode: Walking in Snow by T. Henry Smith
Gertrude Stein by Mina Loy
A Letter to Gertrude Stein by Lindley Williams Hubbell
Appeal to Gertrude by Melville Cane
Epitaph
Or as Gertrude Stein Says by Vassar Miller
Friends and Enemies: A Biographical Directory by Bruce Kellner, Priscilla Oppenheimer, Paul Padgette, and Margaret Woodbridge
Gertrude Stein's ABC
An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Criticism
Works Consulted and Cited
Bibliography
Index