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At this time, Madeleine Wyman, the Hersland family governess, has little to do with the children. Instead, she listens to Fanny’s stories of her early life in Bridgepoint. This attention makes ...
23 de ene. de 2013 · In this rare recording from the winter of 1934–1935, courtesy of my alma mater’s wonderful PennSound archive, Stein reads from her early novel The Making of Americans (public library) — a pinnacle of her signature use of repetition as a sensemaking mechanism, written between 1902 and 1911, during Stein’s late twenties and early thirties.
1 de ago. de 2019 · The Making of Americans, The History of a Family in Progress is a stupendous achievement, packed with riches. The matter and method of presenting it were new and important, but the reader is usually defeated by the sheer quantity of words. Working from charts and diagrams begun at Radcliffe, she started a history “of every one who ever can or ...
Gertrude Stein’s mammoth Making of Americans ( 1925) is the story of “the old people in a new world, the new people made out of the old.”. Like much of her pre-war work, The Making of Americans makes use of patterns of repetition and variation at the sentence level. Stein here uses a contrapuntal sentence structure that resembles a ...
The Making of Americans (1925) is a modernist novel by American author Gertrude Stein (1874-1946).A highly experimental work, the book lacks dialogue and has no straightforward plot. Most of the action focuses on the story of two families, the Dehnings and Herslands, as their second-generation grandchildren encounter each other at college in Bridgepoint.
The Making of Americans. Darkness and an enormous wind. Wind howling. The occasional bit of motion, in the form of a swirl of light. Maybe a title, projected or written in red dots, that says or explains: “The tornadoes were the worst of all, turning everything inside out, or turning them upside down.”. But then the light begins to appear ...
In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on her own writing, on the making of The Making of Americans, and on America.
