Gertrude Stein

"Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises asks new questions and explores new ways of reading Stein. The first extensive examination of Stein's notebooks, manuscripts, and letters, prepared over a period of twenty years, the book gives a finely detailed, deeply felt understanding of the great modernist throughout one of her most productive periods." "Ulla E. Dydo examines the process of the making and remaking of Stein's texts, from "An Elucidation" to Lectures In America, as they move from notepad to notebook to manuscript, from an idea to the ultimate refinement of the author's intentions. Dydo sets each text in the context of Stein's daily life and work, showing how Stein's world enters her writing, to be enlarged upon, deleted, transformed, or combined with other elements of reading or remembering. The result is an unprecedented view of the development of Stein's work, word by word, text by text, and over time."--Jacket.