Happily and in a timely way, Janet Boyd and Sharon J. Kirsch’s edited collection Primary Stein: Returning to the Writing of Gertrude Stein accomplishes just what it sets out to do, which is to shift attention away from Stein’s life and the spurious allegations surrounding it and back to her writing as work that can be, and demands to be, read for its literary, historical, and linguistic value. A much-needed antidote to a very tired debate surrounding Stein’s politics and position in history, Primary Stein assembles critical essays by leading and up-and-coming scholars in Stein studies and modernism that, in the main, focus on individual works in a variety of critical and historical contexts. Arranged such that they trace the arc of Stein’s career, the essays address Stein’s and Toklas’s early publishing efforts (Gabrielle Dean); the influence of Stein’s experimental writing upon that of Virginia Woolf (Rachel Blau DuPlessis); the...
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December 01 2016
Primary Stein: Returning to the Writing of Gertrude Stein ed. by Janet Boyd and Sharon J. Kirsch, Gertrude Stein in Europe: Reconfigurations across Media, Disciplines, and Traditions ed. by Sarah Posman and Laura Luise Schultz
Primary Stein: Returning to the Writing of Gertrude Stein
, edited by Boyd, Janet; Kirsch, Sharon J.Lexington
, 2014
. 310 pages.Gertrude Stein in Europe: Reconfigurations across Media, Disciplines, and Traditions
, edited by Posman, Sarah; Schultz, Laura Luise. Bloomsbury
, 2015
. 294 pages.
Amy Moorman Robbins
Amy Moorman Robbins
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Amy Moorman Robbins is associate professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY. She specializes in modern and contemporary American poetry, with an emphasis on the work of experimental woman writers, and is author of American Hybrid Poetics: Gender, Mass Culture, and Form (2014).
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 455–462.
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Amy Moorman Robbins; Primary Stein: Returning to the Writing of Gertrude Stein ed. by Janet Boyd and Sharon J. Kirsch, Gertrude Stein in Europe: Reconfigurations across Media, Disciplines, and Traditions ed. by Sarah Posman and Laura Luise Schultz. Twentieth-Century Literature 1 December 2016; 62 (4): 455–462. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-3764120
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