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Beschreibung
An indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein's masterpiece, The Making of Americans. One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein's novel represents a peak of modernist literature: filled with repetition, overlapping and disintegrating plots, innumerable characters, and sentences stretching over pages. It is an immensely rewarding book, but also a potentially frustrating one. At last, Cecilia Konchar Farr and Janie Sisson offer a reader's guide-the first of its kind. As I Was Saying is proof that The Making of Americans is not unreadable as charged, and offers accessible entry to the experimental writing Stein valued and promoted most-the original modernist novel by the era's most influential author.
An indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein's masterpiece, The Making of Americans. One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein's novel represents a peak of modernist literature: filled with repetition, overlapping and disintegrating plots, innumerable characters, and sentences stretching over pages. It is an immensely rewarding book, but also a potentially frustrating one. At last, Cecilia Konchar Farr and Janie Sisson offer a reader's guide-the first of its kind. As I Was Saying is proof that The Making of Americans is not unreadable as charged, and offers accessible entry to the experimental writing Stein valued and promoted most-the original modernist novel by the era's most influential author.
Über den Autor

Cecilia Konchar Farr is Dean of the College of Liberal and Creative Arts at West Liberty State University in West Virginia where, in addition to her work as dean, she teaches, researches, and writes about higher education, popular literature and the history of the novel. She is author of The Ulysses Delusion: Rethinking Standards of Literary Merit and Reading Oprah: How Oprah’s Book Club Changes the Way America Reads, and editor of several essay collections. An English professor, feminist theorist, and faculty advocate, she lives in Pittsburgh, just across the river from Gertrude Stein’s first home.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part One
  • Introduction
    “The Long Unmaking of The Making of Americans,” by Cecilia Konchar Farr
  • Biography: “Becoming Gertrude Stein," by Janie Sisson
  • Publication History, by Janie Sisson
  • Early Reception: “Damned naughty Gertrude," by Cecilia Konchar Farr
  • Archival Insights: The Continuous Making of The Making of Americans
Part Two: Reading the Novel
  • Chapter One The Narrator, They: Metafictional Authorial Intent
  • Chapter Two The Modernist Sentence: They are All of Them Repeating
  • Chapter Three On Being American: Geography, Nationality and Class
  • Chapter Four Lesbian Subtexts: The Unmaking of Patriarchy 81
Part Three: Summary
  • Cast of Characters
  • Illustration: Family Tree
  • One:
    The Dehnings and the Herslands, The Hersland Parents, Mrs. Hersland and the Hersland Children, Martha Hersland
  • Two:
    Alfred Hersland and Julia Dehning
  • Three:
    David Hersland
  • Four:
    History of a Family’s Progress
BibliographyAcknowledgementsIndex
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781628974584
ISBN-10: 1628974583
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Konchar Farr, Cecilia
Sisson, Janie
Hersteller: Deep Vellum Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 224 x 148 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Cecilia Konchar Farr (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.12.2025
Gewicht: 0,352 kg
Artikel-ID: 134397830