Gertrude Stein in Europe: reconfigurations across media, disciplines and traditions

Cover......Page 1
HalfTitle......Page 2
Series......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
Contributors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Abbreviations of Works by Gertrude Stein......Page 17
Introduction: One Who Was Networking......Page 20
Part One Stein Encounters......Page 42
  An empress without clothes?......Page 44
  Borderline experience......Page 45
  Rhythms of the visible world......Page 49
  Hyperdialectic......Page 54
  “If I Told Him” and Shutters Shut......Page 57
  This is an introduction to Picabia......Page 66
  Picasso/Picabia......Page 68
  The beginning of a new quest......Page 69
  The vibrant line......Page 72
  Lend a hand or two interpretations......Page 74
  Beginning again and again......Page 78
  Not to live in its frame......Page 83
 3 Sitwell Edith Sitwell: Stein and Sitwell in Echo......Page 90
  Stein and Picasso: If I told him, he would not like it......Page 93
  Sit Well: Edith and Gertrude in dialogue......Page 96
  Melody and no(n) sense in the Stein–Sitwell dialogue......Page 100
 4 Triangular Politics: Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and Elisabeth de Gramont......Page 104
  Bernard Faÿ and Elisabeth de Gramont......Page 105
  Stein’s compositional aesthetics......Page 109
  Stein’s aesthetic politics......Page 114
Part Two Mediations......Page 124
 5 Fluid Writing: Stein, James, and Bergson......Page 126
  James and Bergson: Truth and reality......Page 127
  Fluid concepts......Page 133
  Passionate naming......Page 137
  A carafe, that is a blind glass......Page 141
 6 Becoming American, Becoming Agrammatical: Reading Stein with Deleuze......Page 148
  27 rue de Fleurus, Paris: Location for becoming......Page 149
  Agrammaticality as creative impasse......Page 152
  All alone with one’s English?......Page 157
 7 Stein and Cinematic Identity......Page 164
 8 In Theory: Stein and Film Philosophy......Page 184
  Doing what the cinema was doing......Page 185
  Post-auratic portraiture and ornament......Page 188
  Montage of attractions......Page 192
  Camera-eye?......Page 195
  Change mummified: The continuous present......Page 197
Part Three Stein Encountered......Page 204
 9 Concerning Gertrude Stein: Dreaming Translation......Page 206
 10 Gertrude Stein and her Critique of Dramatic Reason......Page 220
 11 The Missing Link: Stein between American and European Theater......Page 232
  Theatricality and anti-theatricality......Page 234
  Gertrude Stein and avant-garde theater......Page 235
  The performativity of the text—and of the theater......Page 237
  Gertrude Stein and post-dramatic theater......Page 239
  What we see and what we hear......Page 240
  Anti-text and anti-body......Page 243
  Landscapes with dispersed figures......Page 244
 12 A Trail of Roses: Stein’s Legacies in 1960s Art......Page 252
  Writing......Page 253
  Music......Page 257
  Visual art......Page 262
  The flowers of reception......Page 267
 13 Portraitist Portrayed: Four Contemporary French Perspectives on Stein......Page 272
 14 Gertrude Stein Grammaticus......Page 292
 Coda. How to Read?......Page 306
Index......Page 310