Further Reading
- Albright, Daniel, "An Opera with No Acts: Four Saints in Three Acts," Southern Review 33, no. 3 (summer 1997): 574-604. (Gives a positive assessment of the writing style in Four Saints in Three Acts.)
- Aldington, Richard, "The Disciples of Gertrude Stein," Poetry XVII, No. 1 (October 1920): 35-40. (Asserts that many modern French poets, including Guillaume Appollinaire, Jean Cocteau, and the Dadaists, were influenced by Stein.)
- Bloom, Harold, ed. Gertrude Stein. New York: Chelsea House, 1956, 215 p. (Contains essays by fifteen critics, including Sherwood Anderson, Allegra Stewart, Richard Bridgman, Donald Sutherland, Thornton Wilder, and William H. Gass.)
- Bowers, Jane Palatini, Gertrude Stein. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993, 174 p. (Discusses Stein's creative consciousness, including her interest in generic constraints.)
- Bridgman, Richard, Gertrude Stein in Pieces. London: Oxford University Press, 1970, 411 p. (Highly regarded critical study of Stein's prose and poetry.)
- Brinnin, John Malcolm, ed. Introduction to Selected Operas and Plays of Gertrude Stein, by Gertrude Stein, pp. xi-xvii. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970. (Provides an overview of Stein's career and works.)
- Chessman, Harriet, The Public is Invited to Dance: Representation, the Body, and Dialogue in Gertrude Stein. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989, 247 p. (Examines the intimacy of Stein's poems and places them in the context of Stein's reactions to Romanticism.)
- DeKoven, Marianne, A Different Language: Gertrude Stein's Experimental Writing. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983, 175 p. (Feminist analysis of Stein's experimental writings; proposes that Stein developed new modes of expression as an alternative to patriarchal literary traditions.)
- Dubnick, Randa, The Structure of Obscurity: Gertrude Stein, Language, and Cubism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983, 161 p. (Structuralist study of the evolution of Stein's abstract style comparing the stages of her literary development to the developmental phases of Cubism.)
- Dydo, Ulla E., "To Have the Winning Language: Texts and Contexts of Gertrude Stein." In Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century, edited by Diane Wood Middlebrook and Marilyn Yalom. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1975, 270 p. (Reveals autobiographical basis for much of Stein's poetry.)
- Fifer, Elizabeth, "Is Flesh Advisable? The Interior Theater of Gertrude Stein." In Rescued Readings, pp. 46-58. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992. (Identifies allusions to Stein's erotic life in her early poetry.)
- Fifer, Elizabeth, "Rescued Readings: Characteristic Deformations in the Language of Gertrude Stein's Plays," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 24, no. 4 (winter 1982): 394-428. (Dissects the language of Stein's drama.)
- Gallup, Donald, ed. The Flowers of Friendship: Letters Written to Gertrude Stein. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953, 417 p. (Reprints letters from William James, Leo Stein, Picasso, Mabel Dodge, Carl Van Vechten, Hemingway, and many others in an attempt "to indicate some of the influences which made Gertrude Stein into the woman and the writer she became.")
- Gass, William H., "Gertrude Stein and the Geography of the Sentence." In The World Within the Word, pp. 63-123. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. (Interprets and evaluates Stein's literary innovation, particularly the hermetic approach to language she introduced in Tender Buttons.)
- Harris, David, "The Original Four Saints in Three Acts," Drama Review 26, no. 1 (spring 1982): 102-30. (Appraises the dramatic merits of the 1927 libretto for Four Saints in Three Acts.)
- Hobhouse, Janet, Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1975, 244 p. (Biography featuring many photographs and reproductions of art works associated with Stein.)
- Hoffman, Michael J., ed. The Development of Abstractionism in the Writings of Gertrude Stein. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965, 229 p. (Contains essays by thirty-eight critics, including Kenneth Burke, Edmund Wilson, B. F. Skinner, and Thornton Wilder.)
- Kaufmann, Michael, "Gertrude Stein's Re-Vision of Print and Language in Tender Buttons." In Textual Bodies: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Print, pp. 52-67. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1994. (Semantic explication of Tender Buttons*.)
- Mellow, James R., Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company. New York: Praeger, 1974, 528 p. (Biography focusing on Stein as a literary celebrity, including many anecdotes about her friendships with Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Picasso, and others.)
- Perloff, Marjorie, "Poetry as Word-System: The Art of Gertrude Stein," American Poetry Review 8, No. 5 (September-October 1979): 33-43. (Detailed analysis of Stein's use of language.)
- Schmitz, Neil, "Gertrude Stein as Post-Modernist: The Rhetoric of Tender Buttons," Journal of Modern Literature 3, No. 5 (July 1974): 1203-18. (Examines Tender Buttons in the context of Postmodernist narrative style.)
- Skinner, B. F., "Has Gertrude Stein a Secret?" The Atlantic Monthly 153, No. 1 (January, 1934): 50-7. (Dismisses Tender Buttons as an experiment in automatic writing.)
- Sprigge, Elizabeth, Gertrude Stein: Her Life and Work. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957, 277 p. (First full-length biography of Stein.)
- Stendhal, Renate, Gertrude Stein in Words and Pictures. London: Thames and Hudson, 1995, 286 p. (Photobiography.)
- Stewart, Allegra, Gertrude Stein and the Present. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967, 223 p. (Discusses Stein's connections to early modern philosophy.)
- Toklas, Alice B., What is Remembered. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1963, 186 p. (Memoir focusing on Toklas's years with Stein.)
- Van Vechten, Carl, ed. "Introduction: ‘How Many Acts Are There in It?’" In Last Operas and Play By Gertrude Stein, by Gertrude Stein, pp. vii-xix. New York: Rinehart, 1949. (Recalls Stein's efforts as a novice playwright.)
- Wagner-Martin, Linda, Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995, 346 p. (Focus on Stein's relationship with her family and involvement with the art world of Paris.)
- Watson, Steven, "Four Saints in Three Acts Is Born," Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review 6, no. 2 (spring 1999): 39-41. (Discusses gay life in 1920s America and the popular reception of Four Saints in Three Acts.)
- White, Ray Lewis, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984, 282 p. (An annotated bibliography of writings on Stein.)
- Wilson, Robert A., Gertrude Stein: A Bibliography. New York: Phoenix Bookshop, 1974, 227 p. (Descriptive bibliography includes translations, recordings, and biographical materials.)
- Wineapple, Brenda, Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein. London: Bloomsbury, 1996, 514 p. (Thorough study of the relationship between Stein and her brother and its influence on her career.)
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