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[Spring 2007]
CLEN W3970y Gerturde Stein & the European Avant-Garde
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Prof.
Maiken Derno
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ASSIGNED READING
STEIN EDITIONS:
— The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Penguin
Modern Classics (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng.: Penguin
Books, 1966).
— Stein Reader: Gertrude Stein. Edited and
with and introduction by Ulla E. Dydo (Evanston: Illinois:
Northwestern University Press, 1993).
— Look At Me Now And Here I Am. Writings and Lectures
1909-45. Edited by Patricia Meyerowitz, with an introduction
by Elizabeth Springge (New York and London: Penguin Books,
1971).
— How Writing is Written. Edited and with
a preface by Robert Barlett Haas. Vol. 2 of the Previously
Uncollected Writings of Gertrude Stein. (Los Angeles:
Black Sparrow Press, 1974).
— Three Lives. Edited by Linda Wagner-Martin
(Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000).
— Lectures in America. Reprint with and Introduction
by Wendy Steiner (Boston: Beacon Press, 1985/London: Virago
Press, 1988).
CRITICAL TEXTS [available
in course packet]:
— Apollinaire, Guillaume: "Aesthetic Meditations
on Painting: The Cubist Painters." Translated by
Mrs. Charles Knoblauch. Little Review 8, no. 2 (Spring
1922): 7-19; 9 no. 1 (Autumn 1922): 41-59; and 9, no.
2 (Winter 1922): 49-60.
— Bakhtin, Mikhail: from "The Problem of Speech
Genres", in Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (Austin:
University of Texas Press,
1986).
— Bowers, Jane Palatini: "They Watch Me As they
Watch This": Gertrude Stein's Metadrama (Philadelphia:
University Press, 1991).
— Bridgeman, Richard: from Gertrud Stein in Pieces
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1970).
— Bürger, Peter: from Theory of the Avant-Garde.
Translation from the German by Michael Shaw; foreword
by Jochen Schulte-Sasse. (Minneapolis : University of
Minnesota Press, 1984).
— Caramello, Charles: from Henry James, Gertrude
Stein and the Biographical Act (Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 1996).
— Dekoven, Marianne: "Three Lives", in
A Different Language: Gertrude Stein's Experimental Writing
(Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983),
pp. 27-45.
— Dydo, Ulla E. with William Rice: from Gertrude
Stein: The Language That Rises 1923-1934. (Evanston, Illinois:
Northwestern University Press, 2003).
— Fry, Roger: from Cézanne: A Study of His
Development (New York: Noonday, 1968).
— Le Corbusier: from Towards a New Architecture (New
York: Dover 1986).
— Gris, Juan: "On the Possibilities of Painting",
in Transatlantic Review 1, No. 16 (June 1924): 482-88.
— Kostelanetz, Richard: from Gertrude Stein Advanced:
An Anthology of Criticism (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland
& Co., 1990).
— Merleau-Ponty, Maurice: from The Phenomenology
of Perception. Translated by Collin Smith. (London: Routledge
and Kegan Paul, 1962).
— Neumann, Shirley and Ira B. Nadel, eds.: from Gertrude
Stein and the Making of Literature (London: Macmillan,
1988).
— Perloff, Marjorie: from The Poetics of Indeterminancy:
Rimbaud to Cage (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University
Press, 1998).
— Retallack, Joan: "Accident…Aeroplane…Artichoke,"
in New American Writing, no. 10 (Fall 1992): 120-35.
— Stein, Leo: The A-B-C of Aesthetics (New York:
Boni and Liveright, 1927).
— Steiner, Wendy: from Exact Resemblance to Exact
Resemblance: The Literary Portrait of Gertrude Stein (New
Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1978).
— Stendhal, Renate, ed.: Gertrude Stein: In Words
and Pictures; a Photobiography (Chapel Hill: Algonquin
Books of Chapel Hill, 1994).
— Stimpson, Catherine R.: "Gertrude Stein and
the Transposition of Gender," in The Poetics of Gender,
edited by Nancy K. Miller (New York: Columbia University
Press, 1986).
— Walker, Jane L: from Gertrude Stein: The Making
of A Modernist (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press,
1984).
— Watson, Steven: from Prepare for Saints (New York:
Random House, 1998).
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SYLLABUS
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| WEEK 1: |
Stein and the Avant-Garde: Introduction(s)
Reading samples [hand-outs]: Five Words In A Line; Play
(1911); More Grammar for aSentence (1930)
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| WEEK 2: |
Self and Work (Appropriating the Other)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1932)
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| WEEK 3: |
Self and Many (Everybody's Autobiography)
The Makings of Americans (1911) [selections]
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| WEEK 4: |
Portraits, Painting, Seeing
Ada (1910), Picasso (1911), Matisse (1911)
One. Carl Van Vechten (1913)
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| WEEK 5: |
Portraits, Writing, Knowing
Miss Furr and Miss Skeene (1911), Two Women (1911),
Guillaume Appollinaire (1913), Van Or Twenty Years After.
A Second Portrait Of Carl Van Vechten (1923)
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| WEEK 6: |
Narrative, Decontextualization, Repetition
Three Lives/As Fine As Melanctha (1914-1930)
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| WEEK 7: |
Men, Women, "Babies"
The Long Gay Book (1911)
Many, Many Women
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| WEEK 8: |
Twos and Threes: Writing Gender
Pink Melon Joy (1915), A Book Concluding With As A
Wife Has A Cow A Love Story (1923)
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| WEEK 9: |
A Female Language?/Bodies in Writing
Tender Buttons
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| WEEK 10: |
A Different Language
Stanzas in Meditation (1932) [selections]
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| WEEK 11: |
Playing With Plays
What Happened? A Five Act Play (1913), A Circular
Play. A Play in Circles (1920), Photograph. A Play in
Five Acts (1920)
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| WEEK 12: |
Singing With Saints
Fours Saints in Three Acts
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| WEEK 13: |
Methods in Composition
What are Masterpieces, An Acquaintance With
Description (1926), Lectures in America [selections],
Composition as Explanation (1925/1926)
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Paper Proposal Workshop
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COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING
1. Mandatory attendance and active participation
in class discussions.
2. One 15 min. class presentation.
3. Three one-and-a-half page writing assignments
analyzing specific Stein texts (in lieu of a midterm test).
4. Final Seminar paper (10 pages)
Grades will be calculated as follows: 25% for class
participation (no. 1 & 2), 25% for three short mid-semester
writing assignments (no. 3), and 50% for the final seminar
paper (no. 4).
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