Geography and PlaysGeography and Plays is a collection of Gertrude Stein’s writing from about 1908 to 1920. Originally published in 1922 with an introduction by Sherwood Anderson, it was almost inaccessible for many years. This edition makes it possible for students and other devotees of Stein to see the developing strategies of one of the acknowledged giants of literary modernism, whose pathbreaking departures in literary style have recently been assigned still greater importance in light of new theories about women’s writing. An introduction by Cyrena N. Pondrom provides contemporary readers with a fine orientation to the importance of Stein’s achievement in this early work. |
Contents
An Introduction to the Achievement | vii |
Analysis of Contents of Geography and Plays | lvi |
The Work of Gertrude Stein | 5 |
SUSIE ASADO | 13 |
ONE VAN VECHTEN | 14 |
prosepoetry | 23 |
France 1913 | 27 |
AMERICANS | 39 |
Please Do Not Suffer A Play 1916 262 | 227 |
Every Afternoon A Dialogue 1916 | 254 |
Do Let Us Go Away A Play 1916 215 | 260 |
HE SAID IT Monologue | 267 |
COUNTING HER DRESSES A Play | 275 |
LIKE IT TO BE A PLAY | 286 |
What Happened A Play in Five Acts 1913 205 | 290 |
Bonne Annee A Play 1916 | 302 |
ITALIANS | 46 |
A SWEET TAIL GYPSIES | 65 |
Portrait of Prince B D 1913 150 | 75 |
England 1913 | 82 |
Mallorcan Stories 1916 | 96 |
Braque 1913 | 144 |
Advertisements 1916 341 | 166 |
Americans 1913 39 | 176 |
HARRY PHELAN GIBB | 201 |
transitional pieces | 202 |
plays monologues and dialogues | 203 |
early plays | 210 |
ADVERTISEMENTS | 341 |
PINK MELON | 347 |
IF YOU HAD THREE HUSBANDS | 377 |
Late war and postwar pieces usually more political | 392 |
TOURTY OR TOURTEBATTRE | 401 |
AND ASK ASIA | 407 |
Looking At 1920 | 416 |
Notes on Contents and Dates of Composition | 423 |
Sacred Emily 1913 178 | 429 |
Bibliography | 433 |
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