Gertrude Stein (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
Other Literary Forms
It is difficult to classify Gertrude Stein’s writings, because she radically upset the conventions of literary genres and because she worked in many different forms. Traditional generic labels simply do not describe individual works. Even when Stein names the genre in a work’s title (Ida, a Novel, 1941, for example), the conventional form marks only how far Stein has digressed from the norm. Works such as Ida, a Novel and Mrs. Reynolds and Five Earlier Novelettes are Stein’s version of the novel, while The Autobiography of...
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