GERTRUDE STEIN: FURTHER READING

Bibliography

Liston, Maureen R. Gertrude Stein: An Annotated Critical Bibliography, Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1979, 230 p.

Thorough listing of criticism on Stein's work.

Biographies

Knapp, Bettina L. Gertrude Stein, New York: Continuum, 1990, 201 p.

Covers Stein's life as an exile, incorporating criticism of some of her most famous works.

Kostelanetz, Richard. Introduction to The Gertrude Stein

Reader: The Great American Pioneer of Avant-Garde Letters, edited by Richard Kostelanetz, pp. i-xxxvii. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002.

Provides an overview of Stein's life and career.

Sprigge, Elizabeth. Gertrude Stein: Her Life and Work, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1957, 277 p.

Details Stein's life in America and Europe and offers commentary on some of her works.

Criticism

Burke, Carolyn. "Gertrude Stein, the Cone Sisters, and the Puzzle of Female Friendship." In Writing and Sexual Difference, edited by Elizabeth Abel, pp. 221-42. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Examines Stein's fictional treatment of female friendship based on her own relationship with Claribel and Etta Cone.

Chessman, Harriet Scott. "Ida and the Twins." In The Public Is Invited to Dance: Representation, the Body, and Dialogue in Gertrude Stein, pp. 167-98. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989.

Discusses Stein's use of the concept of twins in her 1941 novel Ida.

Doane, Janice L. "Fernhurst: Place and Propriety." In Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels of Gertrude Stein, pp. 32-51. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Relates the narrator's search for a cohesive self-identity in Fernhurst to Stein's own shifting positions regarding the place and purpose of higher education for women.

Fifer, Elizabeth. "Father, Brother, Lover, Other: Gertrude Stein and the Search for Identity." In Rescued Readings: A Reconstruction of Gertrude Stein's Difficult Texts, pp. 22-45. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992.

Discusses identity issues in The Mother of Us All, The Making of Americans, and Geography and Plays.

Gibbs, Anna. "Helene Cixous and Gertrude Stein: New Directions in Feminist Criticism." Meanjin 38, no. 3 (spring 1979): 281-93.

Identifies similarities in the works of Cixous and Stein, despite the initial appearance of little common ground between them in their relationships to feminism and feminist criticism.

Johnson, Manly. "Stein Arose." Lost Generation Journal 2, no. 1 (winter 1974): 3-7.

Offers a brief overview of Stein's literary philosophy.

Modern Fiction Studies, Special Issue: Gertrude Stein 42, no. 3 (fall 1996): 469-680.

Features critical discussions of different aspects of Stein's life and works by a wide variety of critics.

Murphy, Margueritte S. "Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons: Beyond Description: A New Domestic Language." In A Tradition of Subversion: The Prose Poem in English from Wilde to Ashbery, pp. 137-67. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.

Discusses interpretive difficulties surrounding Tender Buttons.

Pladott, Dinnah. "Gertrude Stein: Exile, Feminism, Avant-Garde in the American Theatre." In Modern American Drama: The Female Canon, edited by June Schlueter, pp. 111-29. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990.

Examines Stein's contributions to American drama as a woman, a Jew, a lesbian, and an expatriate.

Ruddick, Lisa. "Tender Buttons: Woman and Gnosis." In Reading Gertrude Stein: Body, Text, Gnosis, pp. 190-252. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990.

Contends that Tender Buttons lends itself to interpretation and understanding far more than has been generally acknowledged.

Steiner, Wendy. Introduction to Lectures in America, by Gertrude Stein, pp. ix-xxvii. Boston: Beacon Press, 1985.

Demonstrates how Stein's work, particularly Lectures in America, both anticipated and influenced pop art and postmodernism.

Stimpson, Catharine R. "Gertrude Stein and the Lesbian Lie." In American Women's Autobiography: Fea(s)ts of Memory, edited by Margo Culley, pp. 152-66. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.

Explores Stein's dual reputation as a popular writer and as a transgressive figure in the sexual and literary realms.

Weiss, M. Lynn. Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright: The Poetics and Politics of Modernism. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 1998, 150 p.

Bio-critical review of Stein and Richard Wright.

OTHER SOURCES FROM GALE:

Additional coverage of Stein's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: American Writers; American Writers: The Classics, Vol. 2; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1917-1929; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 104, 132; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 108; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 4, 54, 86, 228; Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series, Vol. 15; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors, Novelists, and Poets; DISCovering Authors 3.0; Drama Criticism, Vol. 19; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; Exploring Short Stories; Gay & Lesbian Literature, Ed. 1; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Modern American Women Writers; Nonfiction Classics for Students, Vol. 4; Poetry Criticism, Vol. 18; Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4; Reference Guide to Short Fiction, Ed. 2; Short Stories for Students, Vol. 5; Short Story Criticism, Vol. 42; Twayne's United States Authors; Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 6, 28, 48; World Literature Criticism; and World Poets.