Have one to sell? Sell yours here

Tell the Publisher!
I'd like to read this book on Kindle

Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

Geographical History of America (PAJ Books) [Paperback]

Ms. Gertrude Stein (Author)

Available from these sellers.

FREE Two-Day Shipping for Students. Learn more

	Amazon Price	New from	Used from
Hardcover	--	--	--
See # more hardcovers
Show fewer hardcovers
Paperback	--	--	--
Paperback, June 1, 1995	--	--	--
See # more paperbacks
Show fewer paperbacks
Unknown Binding	--	--	--

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0801851335 | ISBN-13: 978-0801851339 | Publication Date: June 1, 1995

Geographical History also elaborates on Stein's concepts of identity, landscape, presence, and composition. Today, as literary discourse pays more attention to textuality; to voice, reader-response, and phenomenology, Stein emerges as a pioneering modernist to whom the century is slowly catching up. For those in the performing arts, Geographical History further addresses the notion of play as landscape, one of Stein's most influential theatrical ideas, as well as such issues as dialogue, character, and dramatic structure -- in a book that is itself a model of modern experimentation.

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } Geographical History also elaborates on Stein's concepts of identity, landscape, presence, and composition. Today, as literary discourse pays more attention to textuality; to voice, reader-response, and phenomenology, Stein emerges as a pioneering modernist to whom the century is slowly catching up. For those in the performing arts, Geographical History further addresses the notion of play as landscape, one of Stein's most influential theatrical ideas, as well as such issues as dialogue, character, and dramatic structure -- in a book that is itself a model of modern experimentation.

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

In the American Grain (Second Edition)... by William Carlos Williams
4.2 out of 5 stars (4)

$11.04
Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual W... by Craig Dworkin

$41.19
Lectures in America by Gertrude Stein
5.0 out of 5 stars (1)
Last Operas and Plays (PAJ Books) by Gertrude Stein

$26.27

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Considering most readers don't understand a thing she writes, Stein's continuing popularity is astounding. Both the plays and the history of America are presented here in her own inimitable style. For the serious literati.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

"The Geographical History of America is a culminating work... the stylized presentation of the process of meditation itself, with many critical asides. It demonstrates far more than it proves, and although it is in no sense a volume of philosophy (Gertrude Stein never 'argues' anything), it is, philosophically, the most important of her texts." -- William H. Gass

Product Details

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press (June 1, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0801851335
ISBN-13: 978-0801851339
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.2 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,713,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

More About the Author

› Visit Amazon's Gertrude Stein Page

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

There are no customer reviews yet.

Create your own review

Video reviews

Amazon now allows customers to upload product video reviews. Use a webcam or video camera to record and upload reviews to Amazon.

Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!

Inside This Book (learn more)

First Sentence:
WHEN Gertrude Stein was a young girl, the twentieth century was approaching like a distant train whose hoot you could just hear. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
human mind anything, relation between human nature, geographical history, literary thinking, human nature cannot

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gertrude Stein, Franklin Roosevelt, Louis Napoleon, United States, Three Lives, Bob Davis, Thornton Wilder, Rene Crevel, Upton Sinclair, London Life

New!
Concordance | Text Stats

Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!

Citations (learn more)

This book cites 21 books:

Three Lives (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Gertrude Stein on page 21, page 35, and page 39
A Hazard of New Fortunes (Penguin Classics) by William Dean Howells on page 1
Don Quixote (English Picture Readers) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra on page 35
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling on page 1
Frederick the Great by Theodor Schieder on page 3

See all 21 books this book cites

64 books cite this book:

Gender and Genre in Gertrude Stein (Contributions in Women's Studies) by Franziska Gygax on 10 pages
Surviving the Crossing: (Im)migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Jessica Rabin on 9 pages
Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community by Jessica Berman on 5 pages
Gertrude Stein and the Essence of What Happens by Dana Cairns Watson on 5 pages
Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures by Renate Stendhal on 4 pages

See all 64 books citing this book

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?

How to Write by Gertrude Stein Paperback
3.7 out of 5 stars (6)

› Explore similar items

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

(What's this?)

Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).

library of america(10)

20th century american fiction(3)

avant garde(2)

france(2)

memoirs - correspondence - interviews(2)

nonfiction(2)

wake up calls(2)

women(2)

gertrude stein(2)

avant garde literature(1)

Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store

If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store. Learn more

.jsOffDisplayBlock { display: block; } .jsOffDisplayInline { display: inline; } .jsOffVisibility { visibility: visible; } .jsOnDisplayBlock { display: none; } .jsOnDisplayNoneBlock { display: block; } .jsOnDisplayNoneInline { display: inline; } .jsOnDisplayInline { display: none; } .jsOnVisibility { visibility: hidden; } .jqOnDisplayBlock { display: none; } .jqOnDisplayInline { display: none; } .jqOnVisibility { visibility: hidden; } .jqOnDisplayNoneBlock { display: block; } .jqOnDisplayNoneInline { display: inline; }

Customer Discussions

This product's forum

Discussion	Replies	Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight

Start a new discussion

Topic:

First post:

Receive e-mail when new posts are made

Prompts for sign-in

Guidelines

Active discussions in related forums

Discussion	Replies	Latest Post
Textbook forum Never Again	29	9 hours ago
Textbook forum I just received a "very good" textbook without its disc - what are your thoughts?	168	3 days ago
Textbook forum Never buy school textbooks. Download them to your reading device or computer	3	5 days ago
Textbook forum Buyer requested return but I haven't been paid by amazon yet?	2	11 days ago
Textbook forum Instructor Edition Textbooks?	5	12 days ago
Textbook forum "Special edition" textbooks: how to sell?	3	20 days ago