Gertrude Stein in Europe : Reconfigurations Across Media, Disciplines, and Traditions

"Although often hailed as a 'quintessentially American' writer, the modernist poet, novelist and playwright Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) spent most of her life in France. With chapters written by leading international scholars, Gertrude Stein in Europe is the first sustained exploration of the European artistic and intellectual networks in which Stein's work was first developed and circulated. Along the way, the book investigates the European contexts of Stein's writing, how her own work intersected with European thought, including phenomenology and the vitalist work of Henri Bergson, and ultimately how it was received by scholars and artists across the continent. Gertrude Stein in Europe opens up new perspectives on Stein as a writer and on the centrality of artistic and intellectual networks to European modernism."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Foreword Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: One Who Was Networking Part 1: Stein Encounters 1 Stein and Lived Experience 2 Picabia in Meditation 3 Sitwell Edith Sitwell: Stein and Sitwell in Echo 4 Triangular Politics: Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and Elisabeth de Gramont Part 2: Mediations 5 Fluid Writing: Stein, James, and Bergson 6 Becoming American, Becoming Agrammatical: Reading Stein with Deleuze 7 Stein and Cinematic Identity 8 In Theory: Stein and Film Philosophy Part 3: Stein Encountered 9 Concerning Gertrude Stein: Dreaming Translation 10 Gertrude Stein and her Critique of Dramatic Reason 11 The Missing Link: Stein between American and European Theater 12 A Trail of Roses: Stein’s Legacies in 1960s Art 13 Portraitist Portrayed: Four Contemporary French Perspectives on Stein 14 Gertrude Stein Grammaticus Coda. How to Read? Index