Section outline

  • A course in which we attempt to read Stein.

    Monday/Wednesday 1:10-2:30 PM

    English House III

    Prof. Jess Shollenberger (they/them)

    Email: jshollenbe@brynmawr.edu

    Office hours: Wednesday 10 AM-noon and by appointment

    Office: English House 203

    • Stein in the Bugey region of France, 1925 (source: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers, YCAL MSS 76)

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    • Recordings of Stein URL
    • How She Bowed to her Brother URL

      in-class reading

    • Articles mentioned in class, etc. Use these materials to develop your final projects—all are reputable.

      Poet John Ashbery's review of Stanzas in Meditation

      Scholar Natalia Cecire on not reading Stein, Toklas's typing

      Poet Lyn Hejinian's meditation on "the commonplace" in Stein

      Scholar Melanie Micir's chapter that covers Toklas's life post-Stein

      Poet Joan Retallack's introduction to the corrected Stanzas in Meditation