Part I
The tradesmen of Bridgepoint learned to dread the
sound of “Miss Mathilda”, for with that
name the good Anna always conquered.
The strictest of the one price stores found that they
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Biography EssayJust 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 widerang...
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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 ...
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"It was not what France gave you but what it did not take away from you that was important," Gertrude Stein once remarked by way of explaining her long-term residence in Paris. She had found in the Fr...
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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 ...
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Gertrude Stein, who lived and wrote as though she knew she would be legendary, is more than that now: she is an icon. The image of Stein, sitting under the Picasso portrait of her in the living room a...
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In his introduction to Gertrude Stein's Four in America (1947) Thornton Wilder observed:She knew that she was a difficult and an idiosyncratic author. She pursued her aims, however, with such convict...
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In the following review, the critic finds Three Lives difficult but rewarding and notes that Stein shows great promise as a writer.
These stories [in Three Lives] of the Good Anna, Melanctha, and t...
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In the following essay, Saldivar-Hull examines critical commentary on Three Lives and deems the text groundbreaking in its treatment of race, class, and gender.
And this movement that began with a ...
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In the following essay, Wood considers Three Lives as a conscious literary homage to the French Romantic ironist Jules Laforgue.
The epigraph at the beginning of Gertrude Stein's first publi...
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In the following essay, Hoffman presents an overview of Three Lives and considers its role as one of Stein's first published works.
Settled in Montparnasse at 27, rue de Fleurus, Gertrude St...
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In the following essay, Rose considers Three Lives as a “verbal portrait” in the style of cubist narrative.
“… If it were possible that a movement were lively enough it ...
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In the following essay, Walker explores the role of modernist painting in Stein's composition of Three Lives.
In The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Stein recalled that she wrote Three Live...
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In the following essay, Dunn studies Three Lives and H. D.'s Palimpsest for evidence of their authors breaking through literary gender barriers.
In her recent book concerning narrative strat...
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London (dpa) - Three people have died in Britain after heavy
rainfalls caused severe flooding in large parts of the country,leaving
people stranded in buildings and causing ...
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The health risk appeared to be "minimal" for people who ate pork from a hog farm where an industrial chemical was found in its animals, state officials said Friday.Tests of seven urine samples and ...
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Italian Serie A games will be televised in the United States on Fox Soccer Channel under a three-year agreement that starts with the 2007-8 season.Fox plans to broadcast up three live games each we...
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Johannesburg (dpa) - Mozambicans were closely watching the course
of another tropical storm developing off the coast of Madagascar
Sunday as the clean-up in the aftermath of...
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Maputo (dpa) - Mozambique's disaster management officials on
Friday warned people who slipped back home after evacuating from
flood-hit parts of the country they would be fo...
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The nation honored Gerald R. Ford on Tuesday in a high-powered fanfare for the common man who was summoned to the presidency in the Watergate crisis. He was remembered for what he didn't have _ pre...
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The nation honored Gerald R. Ford on Tuesday in a high-powered fanfare for the common man who was summoned to the presidency in the Watergate crisis. He was remembered for what he didn't have _ pre...
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The nation honored Gerald R. Ford on Tuesday in a high-powered fanfare for the common man who was summoned to the presidency in the Watergate crisis. He was remembered for what he didn't have _ pre...
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