As I Was Saying
Dalkey Archive Press (Verlag)
978-1-62897-458-4 (ISBN)
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One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein’s novel represents a peak of modernist literature: filled with repetition, overlapping and disintegrating plots, innumerable characters, and sentences stretching over pages. It is an immensely rewarding book, but also a potentially frustrating one.
At last, Cecilia Konchar Farr and Janie Sisson offer a reader’s guide—the first of its kind. As I Was Saying is proof that The Making of Americans is not unreadable as charged, and offers accessible entry to the experimental writing Stein valued and promoted most—the original modernist novel by the era’s most influential author.
Cecilia Konchar Farr is Dean of the College of Liberal and Creative Arts at West Liberty State University in West Virginia where, in addition to her work as dean, she teaches, researches, and writes about higher education, popular literature and the history of the novel. She is author of The Ulysses Delusion: Rethinking Standards of Literary Merit and Reading Oprah: How Oprah’s Book Club Changes the Way America Reads, and editor of several essay collections. An English professor, feminist theorist, and faculty advocate, she lives in Pittsburgh, just across the river from Gertrude Stein’s first home.
Part One
Introduction
“The Long Unmaking of The Making of Americans,” by Cecilia Konchar Farr
Biography: “Becoming Gertrude Stein," by Janie Sisson
Publication History, by Janie Sisson
Early Reception: “Damned naughty Gertrude," by Cecilia Konchar Farr
Archival Insights: The Continuous Making of The Making of Americans
Part Two: Reading the Novel
Chapter OneThe Narrator, They: Metafictional Authorial Intent
Chapter TwoThe Modernist Sentence: They are All of Them Repeating
Chapter ThreeOn Being American: Geography, Nationality and Class
Chapter Four Lesbian Subtexts: The Unmaking of Patriarchy81
Part Three: Summary
Cast of Characters
Illustration: Family Tree
One:
The Dehnings and the Herslands, The Hersland Parents, Mrs. Hersland and the Hersland Children, Martha Hersland
Two:
Alfred Hersland and Julia Dehning
Three:
David Hersland
Four:
History of a Family’s Progress
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.12.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Scholarly Series |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Normal, IL |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 139 x 215 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-62897-458-3 / 1628974583 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-62897-458-4 / 9781628974584 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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