Author: Win Wells
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573690358
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
"The play begins just after the death of Gertrude Stein. Her ghost returns to Alice B. Toklas and the genesis and development of their relationship is richly portrayed. Mr. Wells has truly captured the feeling, art, music and literature of Paris of those years, when Pablo and Ernest and Henri and all of Gertrude's friends spent their free time in the great writer's salon. This play is a director's dream. It flits back and forth in time as the actors play not only Gertrude and Alice but a host of famous people who were part of their lives."--Publisher's website.
Gertrude Stein and a Companion
Author: Win Wells
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573690358
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
"The play begins just after the death of Gertrude Stein. Her ghost returns to Alice B. Toklas and the genesis and development of their relationship is richly portrayed. Mr. Wells has truly captured the feeling, art, music and literature of Paris of those years, when Pablo and Ernest and Henri and all of Gertrude's friends spent their free time in the great writer's salon. This play is a director's dream. It flits back and forth in time as the actors play not only Gertrude and Alice but a host of famous people who were part of their lives."--Publisher's website.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573690358
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
"The play begins just after the death of Gertrude Stein. Her ghost returns to Alice B. Toklas and the genesis and development of their relationship is richly portrayed. Mr. Wells has truly captured the feeling, art, music and literature of Paris of those years, when Pablo and Ernest and Henri and all of Gertrude's friends spent their free time in the great writer's salon. This play is a director's dream. It flits back and forth in time as the actors play not only Gertrude and Alice but a host of famous people who were part of their lives."--Publisher's website.
Seeing Gertrude Stein
Author: Wanda M. Corn
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520270029
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"An Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts book"--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520270029
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"An Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts book"--P. [4] of cover.
A Gertrude Stein Companion
Author: Bruce Kellner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Gertrude Stein Has Arrived
Author: Roy Morris Jr.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 142143153X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Toklas—the true power behind the throne.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 142143153X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Toklas—the true power behind the throne.
Unlikely Collaboration
Author: Barbara Will
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231152639
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
From 1941 to 1943, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein translated for an American audience thirty-two speeches in which Marshal Philippe Petain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government, outlined the Vichy policy barring Jews and other "foreign elements" from the public sphere while calling for France to reconcile with its Nazi occupiers. Why and under what circumstances would Stein undertake such a project? The answers lie in Stein's link to the man at the core of this controversy: Bernard Faÿ, her apparent Vichy protector. Barbara Will outlines the formative powers of this relationship, treating their interaction as a case study of intellectual life during wartime France and an indication of America's place in the Vichy imagination.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231152639
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
From 1941 to 1943, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein translated for an American audience thirty-two speeches in which Marshal Philippe Petain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government, outlined the Vichy policy barring Jews and other "foreign elements" from the public sphere while calling for France to reconcile with its Nazi occupiers. Why and under what circumstances would Stein undertake such a project? The answers lie in Stein's link to the man at the core of this controversy: Bernard Faÿ, her apparent Vichy protector. Barbara Will outlines the formative powers of this relationship, treating their interaction as a case study of intellectual life during wartime France and an indication of America's place in the Vichy imagination.
The Gertrude Stein Reader
Author: Gertrude Stein
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0815412460
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
This anthology collects 51 of Stein's most experimental poems, stories, portraits, and plays.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0815412460
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
This anthology collects 51 of Stein's most experimental poems, stories, portraits, and plays.
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
Author: Gertrude Stein
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307829855
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 739
Book Description
"This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages from The Making of Americans; "Melanctha"from Three Lives; portraits of the painters Cezanne, Matisse, and Picasso; Tender Buttons; the opera Four Saints in Three Acts; and poem, plays, lectures, articles, sketches, and a generous portion of her famous book on the Occupation of France, Wars I Have Seen.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307829855
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 739
Book Description
"This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages from The Making of Americans; "Melanctha"from Three Lives; portraits of the painters Cezanne, Matisse, and Picasso; Tender Buttons; the opera Four Saints in Three Acts; and poem, plays, lectures, articles, sketches, and a generous portion of her famous book on the Occupation of France, Wars I Have Seen.
Two Lives
Author: Janet Malcolm
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300137710
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master "whose charm was as conspicuous as her fatness" and "thin, plain, tense, sour" Alice B. Toklas, the "worker bee" who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate "marriage." As Malcolm pursues the truth of the couple's charmed life in a village in Vichy France, her subject becomes the larger question of biographical truth. "The instability of human knowledge is one of our few certainties," she writes. The portrait of the legendary couple that emerges from this work is unexpectedly charged. The two world wars Stein and Toklas lived through together are paralleled by the private war that went on between them. This war, as Malcolm learned, sometimes flared into bitter combat. Two Lives is also a work of literary criticism. "Even the most hermetic of [Stein's] writings are works of submerged autobiography," Malcolm writes. "The key of 'I' will not unlock the door to their meaning-you need a crowbar for that-but will sometimes admit you to a kind of anteroom of suggestion." Whether unpacking the accessible Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, in which Stein "solves the koan of autobiography," or wrestling with The Making of Americans, a masterwork of "magisterial disorder," Malcolm is stunningly perceptive. Praise for the author: "[Janet Malcolm] is among the most intellectually provocative of authors . . .able to turn epiphanies of perception into explosions of insight."-David Lehman, Boston Globe "Not since Virginia Woolf has anyone thought so trenchantly about the strange art of biography."-Christopher Benfey
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300137710
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master "whose charm was as conspicuous as her fatness" and "thin, plain, tense, sour" Alice B. Toklas, the "worker bee" who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate "marriage." As Malcolm pursues the truth of the couple's charmed life in a village in Vichy France, her subject becomes the larger question of biographical truth. "The instability of human knowledge is one of our few certainties," she writes. The portrait of the legendary couple that emerges from this work is unexpectedly charged. The two world wars Stein and Toklas lived through together are paralleled by the private war that went on between them. This war, as Malcolm learned, sometimes flared into bitter combat. Two Lives is also a work of literary criticism. "Even the most hermetic of [Stein's] writings are works of submerged autobiography," Malcolm writes. "The key of 'I' will not unlock the door to their meaning-you need a crowbar for that-but will sometimes admit you to a kind of anteroom of suggestion." Whether unpacking the accessible Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, in which Stein "solves the koan of autobiography," or wrestling with The Making of Americans, a masterwork of "magisterial disorder," Malcolm is stunningly perceptive. Praise for the author: "[Janet Malcolm] is among the most intellectually provocative of authors . . .able to turn epiphanies of perception into explosions of insight."-David Lehman, Boston Globe "Not since Virginia Woolf has anyone thought so trenchantly about the strange art of biography."-Christopher Benfey
Gertrude Stein and a Companion
Author: Win Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater programs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater programs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two: Gertrude Stein and Her Brother
Author: Gertrude Stein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description