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| Name: |
Gertrude Stein | | Birth Date: |
February 3, 1874 | | Death Date: |
July 27, 1946 | | Place of Birth: |
Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States | | Place of Death: |
Neuilly, France | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
writer |
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Biography of Gertrude Stein
967 words, approx. 3 pages
 American writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was a powerful literary force in the period around World War I. Although the ultimate value of her writing was a matter of debate, in its time it profoundly affected the work of a generation of American...
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Biography of Gertrude Stein
14,480 words, approx. 48 pages
 Just as the postimpressionists and cubists made us see paint and then made us see painting, Gertrude Stein made us see words and then made us see writing. Immensely various and wideranging, her work amounts to a systematic investigation of the formal...
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Biography of Gertrude Stein
13,503 words, approx. 45 pages
 Just as the postimpressionists and cubists made us see paint and then made us see painting, Gertrude Stein made us see words and then made us see writing. Immensely various and wide-ranging, her work amounts to a systematic investigation of the formal...



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Gertrude Stein Quotes
6,705 words, approx. 22 pages
 Gertrude Stein ( 3 February 1874 - 27 July 1946 ) American expatriate writer, poet, feminist, and playwright, who lived most of her life in Europe. She is famous for her "flow-of-thought" and sometimes "cyclical" or "circular" manner of expressing...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Stein, Gertrude Summary
34,039 words, approx. 114 pages Amajor American writer associated with literary Modernism and Cubist painting, Stein is noted for her avant-garde approach to language and literature. Rejecting patriarchal literary traditions, Stein produced novels, plays, and poetry known for their...
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Gertrude Stein Information
9,333 words, approx. 31 pages
 Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first...




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 The New York Observer
Our Critic's Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of August 6th, 2007
7/31/2007: 311 words, approx. 1 pages A.A. Gill’s amusingly intemperate book on the English national character, The Angry Island: Hunting the English (S&S, $24), is a classic case of pot/kettle calumny. He thinks the “lumpen and louty, coarse, unsubtle, beady-eyed, beefy-bummed herd of England” is seething with repressed rage. Whether or...
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 AP News
Today in history - Oct. 28
10/28/2007: 575 words, approx. 2 pages Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Cleveland.On this date:In 1636, the General Court of Massachusetts passed a legislative act establishing Harvard College.In 1776, the Battle...
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 The New York Observer
Dear Firstborn Sisters and Brothers,
6/26/2007: 603 words, approx. 2 pages You must be feeling pretty good about yourselves these days, ever since those Norwegian epidemiologists conferred the equivalent of intellectual primogeniture on all of you. And truth be told, we’d be feeling pretty good about ourselves too if the report had gone the other way...
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 The New York Observer
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of September 24th, 2007
9/18/2007: 464 words, approx. 2 pages Greater than the sum of its parts ⦠Over the past several years, Janet Malcolm has published a series of essays in The New Yorker about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, their life together in France, especially during World War II, their writings and...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Lisa Ruddick
15,930 words, approx. 53 pages
 In the following essay, Ruddick determines “Melanctha” to be Stein's conscious break with nineteenth-century literary standards.
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Critical Essay by Anthony Channell Hilfer
11,924 words, approx. 40 pages
 In the following essay, Hilfer argues that “Melanctha” is a radical empiricist work in the vein of the philosophy of William James, in which “mood is a phenomenological reality.”
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Critical Essay by Shirley Neuman
10,858 words, approx. 36 pages
 In the following essay, Neuman details the historical and literary circumstances surrounding the composition and staging of Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights.


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