Imatge de l'autor

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

Autor/a de Autobiografia d'Alice B. Toklas

172+ obres 11,961 Membres 113 Ressenyes 58 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Famous writer Gertrude Stein was born on February 3, 1874 in Allegheny, PA and was educated at Radcliffe College and Johns Hopkins medical school. Stein wrote Three Lives, The Making of Americans, and Tender Buttons, all of which were considered difficult for the average reader. She is most famous mostra'n més for her opera Four Saints in Three Acts and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which was actually an autobiography of Stein herself. With her companion Alice B. Toklas, Stein received the French government's Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise for theory work with the American fund for French Wounded in World War I. Gertrude Stein died in Neuilly-ser-Seine, France on July 27, 1946. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

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Obres de Gertrude Stein

Autobiografia d'Alice B. Toklas (1933) 2,662 exemplars
Three Lives (1909) 1,730 exemplars
Tender Buttons (1914) 875 exemplars
The Making of Americans (1934) 442 exemplars
Picasso (1938) 434 exemplars
Paris France (1940) 319 exemplars
How to Write (1973) 304 exemplars
Everybody's Autobiography (1937) 279 exemplars
Ida (1941) 242 exemplars
The World Is Round (1939) 241 exemplars
Lectures in America (1935) 162 exemplars
Three Lives and Tender Buttons (2003) 136 exemplars
Wars I Have Seen (1945) 125 exemplars
Lifting Belly (1989) 104 exemplars
Geography and Plays (1968) 101 exemplars
Stanzas in Meditation (1956) 81 exemplars
The Yale Gertrude Stein (1980) 80 exemplars
Lucy Church Amiably (1969) 80 exemplars
Last operas and plays (1949) — Autor — 76 exemplars
America and Alfred Stieglitz: A Collective Portrait (1934) — Col·laborador — 70 exemplars
A Novel of Thank You (1958) 62 exemplars
Brewsie and Willie (1946) 58 exemplars
A Stein Reader (1993) 55 exemplars
Narration: Four Lectures (1969) 54 exemplars
Mrs. Reynolds (1987) 51 exemplars
Gertrude Stein's America (1964) 48 exemplars
Gertrude Stein: Selections (2008) 42 exemplars
Not waving but drowning (2018) 42 exemplars
Useful Knowledge (1988) 36 exemplars
Food (Penguin Modern) (2018) 36 exemplars
Q. E. D. (1903) 29 exemplars
What are Masterpieces? (1940) 27 exemplars
Operas & Plays (1987) 25 exemplars
Portraits and prayers (1934) 21 exemplars
Four saints in three acts (1934) 19 exemplars
Ada (2005) 19 exemplars
Ser norteamericanos 1. (1974) 13 exemplars
Gertrude Stein Reads (1980) 10 exemplars
Dix Portraits (1991) 9 exemplars
Mexico: A Play (2000) 8 exemplars
Melanctha (1988) 7 exemplars
Four in America (1947) 6 exemplars
Flirtare ai grandi magazzini (2008) 4 exemplars
Milda Lena (2022) 4 exemplars
A Little Called Pauline (2020) 3 exemplars
Melankta 2 exemplars
Le livre de lecture 2 exemplars
If You Had Three Husbands (1915) 2 exemplars
The Gertrude Stein Collection (2010) 2 exemplars
Dikt og tekstar (1998) 2 exemplars
An elucidation 2 exemplars
Picasso Anciens Et Modernes (1938) 2 exemplars
Barriga ao alto 1 exemplars
Correspondance (2005) 1 exemplars
La sacra Emilia e altre poesie (1999) 1 exemplars
Conferenze americane (1990) 1 exemplars
Dobitnik gubi 1 exemplars
Dünya Yuvarlaktir (2021) 1 exemplars
Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (1951) 1 exemplars
Paris France 1 exemplars
Čitanka 1 exemplars
Home 1 exemplars
EVA & ADELE: ADSILA (2014) 1 exemplars
Is Dead 1 exemplars
la tierra natal 1 exemplars
Motor Automatism 1 exemplars
Texter 1908-46 (1981) 1 exemplars
O mundo é redondo (2020) 1 exemplars
PICASO 1 exemplars

Obres associades

The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Col·laborador — 1,130 exemplars
The Crack-Up (1945) — Col·laborador — 910 exemplars
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Col·laborador — 774 exemplars
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions443 exemplars
Reporting World War II Part One : American Journalism, 1938-1944 (1995) — Col·laborador — 437 exemplars
The Norton Book of Women's Lives (1993) — Col·laborador — 409 exemplars
Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (1975) — Col·laborador — 365 exemplars
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Col·laborador — 332 exemplars
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004) — Col·laborador — 297 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Women Poets (1978) — Col·laborador — 297 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories (1993) — Col·laborador — 295 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983) — Col·laborador — 236 exemplars
Erotica: Women's Writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood (1990) — Col·laborador — 168 exemplars
The Saturday Evening Post Treasury (1954) — Col·laborador — 137 exemplars
An Anthology of Famous American Stories (1953) — Col·laborador — 137 exemplars
No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (1973) — Col·laborador — 122 exemplars
The Other persuasion: short fiction about gay men and women (1977) — Col·laborador — 121 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Col·laborador — 117 exemplars
Poems Between Women (1997) — Col·laborador — 91 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Erotic Stories by Women (1995) — Col·laborador — 80 exemplars
Bedside Book of Famous American Stories (1936) — Col·laborador — 71 exemplars
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Col·laborador — 68 exemplars
The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (1990) — Col·laborador — 64 exemplars
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Col·laborador — 63 exemplars
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers (2011) — Col·laborador — 56 exemplars
American short novels (1960) — Col·laborador — 30 exemplars
The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica (2007) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (2004) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
Modernist Women Poets: An Anthology (2014) — Col·laborador — 17 exemplars
Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (2022) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
Modern Women Poets (2005) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections (2007) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Sinister Wisdom 80: Willing Up and Keeling Over (2010) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
The Mother of Us All [sound recording] (1992) — Autor — 4 exemplars
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 5, January 1977 (1977) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Bookmaking on the Distaff Side — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Contact collection of contemporary writers — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas a Legacy Libraries (agost 2015)

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Stieglitz as receiver and medium of new cultural ideas in the USA regarding photography and modern art. An odd character, but influential in artistic circles of his generation.
 
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sfj2 | Nov 25, 2023 |
I understand why this book is important to literature but I really did not enjoy it. This was one of a very small handful of books that made me look for excuses not to read. I forced myself to finish it because I was curious but it was not long drawn out process that I don't usually associate with reading.
 
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jskeltz | Hi ha 15 ressenyes més | Nov 23, 2023 |
 
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betty_s | Hi ha 42 ressenyes més | Oct 3, 2023 |
Tender Buttons Again
Review of the City Lights Publishers paperback edition (2014) edited with notes by Seth Perlow with an Afterword by poet Juliana Spahr of the original Claire Marie hardcover (1914).

Tender Buttons is written in what one might call prose, the word that tends to get used for sentences that do not follow realist conventions and instead have poetry's associational drive but not its line breaks. While it uses fairly simple language in that there are few words that require a dictionary, it indulges in a lot of grammatical variations. It runs on... it hangs fire in fragments... it frequently indulges in a fragmented listing... at moments it even manages to run on in fragments... it seems often to have a definitional desire. But it is a complicated desire. Things get defined all the time... and then Stein follows with a list of negatives... Sometimes all is grammatically set up for a definition but the words seem to have only the vaguest relation to each other. - excerpts from the Afterword by Juliana Spahr.


I read a public domain eBook of Tender Buttons earlier this summer and reviewed it as Bastardized Buttons. That was more a reflection of the lack of editorial care that went into that edition, even if it did have bonus poems included without any source references, which I then had to research for myself.

The contrast in this corrected centennial edition is immense. The editor Seth Perlow discusses the various correction sources (these are either Stein's own manuscript or her handwritten notes on either proofs or published copies) and provides a complete appendix section of the variances from the original as published in 1914. The changes are not major but there are over 100 of them. A lot of them are punctuation. It is the care and attention that went into this edition which really makes it stand out. The bonus is the wonderful Afterword by Juliana Spahr which puts Tender Buttons into the context of its modernist times in the early 20th century saying that "Tender Buttons says something feminist, something queer, something opposed to those big modernist epics such as T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" or Ezra Pound's "The Cantos", works that were being written at the time Stein was writing hers."

See the original painting at https://imgc.allpostersimages.com/img/print/u-g-PI4J850.jpg?w=1100&h=1100&am...
The cover art for this edition is cropped from the painting La Femme au Livre (Woman with Book) by Juan Gris, oil on canvas, 1926. Image sourced from AllPosters.com.

My 5 star rating is relative to the various free or cheap public domain editions which provide no additional information or context.

Trivia and Links
Tender Buttons is in the Public Domain and can be read online at various locations such as Wikisource and Bartleby [Note: the layout at Bartleby is entirely wrong with the texts all mashed together, rather than spaced out by each subject.].
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alanteder | Hi ha 14 ressenyes més | Jul 17, 2023 |

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Obres
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Membres
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Valoració
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Ressenyes
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ISBN
622
Llengües
19
Preferit
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