Stein, Gertrude
Stein, Gertrude (1874–1946),American poet and writer. In the ‘Transatlantic Interview’ (1946), Gertrude Stein insisted that all her poetry was ‘children's poetry’. Clearly, she often experimented with children's genres, such as the alphabet book. Her most famous work for children, The World is Round (1939), experiments with fairy‐tale discourse by juxtaposing the linear narrative of a fairy tale within the tale (chapters 29–34) to the ‘rounder’ narrative of the book as a whole. Stein's satire of narrative and gender stereotypes in children's literature is wittily reinforced by Clement Hurd's pink‐and‐blue colour scheme.
Richard Flynn
Bibliography
DeKoven, Marianne (ed.), ‘Gertrude Stein Special Issue’, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 42.3 (fall 1996).
Rust, Martha Dana, ‘Stop the World, I Want to Get Off! Identity and Circularity in Gertrude Stein's The World Is Round’, Style,...
[The entire page is 175 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Oxford University Press Titles
