Historical Context
Stein saw herself as spanning the two centuries in which she lived; she felt ties to the values, often conflicting, that characterized both...
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Literary Style
Modernism
When Gertrude Stein composed ‘‘Melanctha’’ in 1905, the twentieth-century upheaval in literature known as...
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Bibliography and Further Reading
Sources
Bridgman, Richard. Gertrude Stein in Pieces, London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
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Bibliography
(Masterpieces of American Literature)
Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Views: Gertrude Stein. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
Bowers, Jane Palatini. Gertrude Stein. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
Brinnin, John Malcom. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World. Boston: Little, Brown, 1959.
Curnutt, Kirk, ed. The Critical Response to Gertrude Stein. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.
DeKoven, Marianne. A Different Language: Gertrude Stein’s Experimental Writing. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.
Dubnick, Randa. The...
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Compare and Contrast
Early 1900s: Many writers rely on funding from patrons (wealthy individuals who support the arts) so that they can devote their full...
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Topics for Further Study
Rose Johnson figures very prominently at the beginning of the story and at the end, although she is largely absent from the center. Looking...
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What Do I Read Next?
In A Moveable Feast (1964), Stein’s friend and fellow-novelist Ernest Hemingway describes the Paris world in which both artists...
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