Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures 1909-1945

by Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein’s radical innovations and continual experiments with language were years ahead of her time. More than any other writer, Stein reflects the last century’s revolt from the fine arts. Gertrude Stein was one of the most colorful personalities of the literary world during the interwar years. This volume of her writings attempts to dispel some of the misunderstanding that surrounds her work, presenting many of her lectures for the first time. Look at Me Now includes portraits of show more people (Matisse, Lipschitz, Picasso, Henry James, and others), portraits of objects, her poetry, her novel Ida, and her last work, Brewsie and Willie. Her lectures reveal a precise and original scheme behind her writing, drawing on concepts from William James’s theories of the aesthetic to Bergson’s notion of time. This accessible anthology presents the best of her startling achievements. show less

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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 for her opera Four Saints in Three Acts and The show more 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) show less

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Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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818.5209Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican miscellaneous writings in English20th Century1900-1945Biography
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PS3537 .T323 .A6Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1900-1960
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