A Vocabulary of Thinking: Gertrude Stein and Contemporary North American Women's Innnovative Writing

... playing," and he would call the governess to take his hand from him and all three of the children would have then to play together a game none of them would have thought of beginning, and they had to keep on going for often he would ...

... Faust play that is closest to Stein's, and she advised Virgil Thomson against reading Goethe when he asked her about Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights after Stein's death in 1949.4 For Carl Van Vechten, however, Goethe was the obvious ...

... Marjorie Perloff , 21st - Century Modernism : The " New " Poetics ( Oxford : Blackwell Publishers , 2002 ) , 1 , 5. On the " anti - symbolist mode of indeterminacy , " see Perloff's The Poetics of Indeterminacy : Rimbaud to Cage ...

... Hegel's philos- ophy to the unity of the Absolute , so in Emerson's thought it led to the Over - Soul - Emerson's term for the final , universal spiritual principle , an all- encompassing heart of the universe that contains the ...

... young leafs or sprouts of " kangkung " is done every 15 to 20 days and produced 1 750 bunches of " kangkung " weighing 230 grams per bunch . The plantation of " kangkung " is totally renewed every three months . The " genjer " is ...

... Curious story. If he were really trying to get rid of money by using it up ... fantasy life of its believers, and allow them to imagine that conditions of ... object, Roosevelt 'piles up the figures' (PL 72) beyond what is known 106 ...

... Kyla Tompkins coined the term for this focus , which she argues contains a dark underside : [ C ] ritical eating ... Fajardo , and Philip Keel Geheber's edited collection Modernism and Food Studies : Politics , Aesthetics and the Avant ...

... Doctor Faustus ( about 1592 ) and returns in Paul Weidmann's " Johann Faust " ( 1775 ) and Goethe's Faust II . Stein ... Lights the Lights revises the female roles in the existent Faustus- plots by reversing their relation to the pursuit ...

... Doctor Faustus is done , the opera that I did for Lord Berners , 1 perhaps [ Max ] Reinhardt would like to do my ... Lights The Lights , and “ Ida ” are discussed by Shirley Neuman in " Would a viper have stung her if she had only had ...

... the canons of rhetoric, individually and together, has waxed and waned throughout the history of rhetoric, the canons regained popularity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as the organizational structure for the ...

... Stevens argues, that the "supreme" poem must change. It must resist the tendency ... Parts of a World, and Samuel French Morse, editor of the first edition of ... favorite symbols for the act of perception in relation to the ever-changing ...

... Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights SHIRLEY NEUMAN IDA A NOVEL BECOMES AN OPERA ' [ I ] n a kind of a way novels are still a puzzle to me ' , 1 Gertrude Stein explained as she began Ida A ... Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights Shirley Neuman.

This work shall rather give a justifiable impression of their similar theories and of James’s direct influence upon Stein.

... Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights. Here, Van Vechten offers substantially the same reasoning that Cerf offered to Stein (see Stein to Van Vechten [26 July 1938], note 1). In a letter to Van Vechten, 4 August 1938 (YCAL), Cerf thanked him ...

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.

... Edith Sitwell,” investigates similarities in Stein's The Autobiography of ... Façade, a poem-song for which William Walton had written the score (PP 93) ... Façade is alluded to in the last five lines, all of which contain the word “faces ...

... intro- duction . Gibson who is supposed to lead the reader into the text and make its meanings more accessible ... souls in the dark past . ” ( Souls , 2 ) . Secondly Gibson's claims , clash cacophonously with Du Bois's text . Instead of ...

... Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights a year later, in December 1951 at the Cherry Lane Theater, with the direction of Judith Malina and the stage design by Julian Beck. Just a month earlier, Stein's libretto had been made into a successful ...

... comes to be a whole one to me seeing that one . Resisting being is one way ... group then has in a way the same way of handwriting , the same way of ... writing in each one . This is not anything about , good or bad in them , in ...

... Atlantic Monthly Stein attempted to submit the address , as she had earlier submitted " An Elucidation , ” to the Atlantic Monthly.35 Publication in that journal was a mark of solid success in America , as it had been for Twain ...

... Wilson, Harry Leon, 195 Women's Club of St. Paul, lecture at, 138, 139–40 Wood, Dr ... Amos Parker, 148 Wilder, Thornton: apartment of, 147; in Chicago, 204; on ... quotes; specific works Yale-Dartmouth football game, 112–13 Young, Stark, 81 ...

... Doctor Faustus Lights The Lights (1938), Toklas asks whether Marguerite Ida Helena Annabel is another M figure. Such exchanges appear for years as a red subtext in manuscripts. Apparently after the discovery of the manuscript, Toklas ...

The fascinating documents that end the book can be regarded as the sweet at the end of a fully satisfying and memorable experience. This is an essential book for both new and long-term discoverers of the wonder of Gertrude Stein's writings.