A Description of Acquaintance

The Letters of Laura Riding and Gertrude Stein, 1927-1930

Logan Esdale, Jane Malcolm (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2025
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
9780826368058 (ISBN)

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Gertrude Stein and Laura Riding enjoyed a fascinating if brief three-year friendship via correspondence between 1927 and 1930, and in A Description of Acquaintance, Logan Esdale and Jane Malcolm make the letters available to a larger audience for the first time. Riding and Stein are important figures in twentieth-century poetry and poetics and are considered progenitors of later movements such as L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. The editors contextualize their relationship and its time period with an introduction; annotations to the letters; and supplementary materials, including pieces by Stein and Riding that exemplify their singular perspectives on modernism as well as their personal poetics. The book provides unique insight into Stein's and Riding's writing processes as well as the larger literary world around them, making it a must-read for anyone interested in twentieth-century poetry.

Logan Esdale teaches in the Department of English at Chapman University and at California State University–Long Beach. He is the coeditor of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Gertrude Stein and the editor of a workshop edition of Stein's 1941 novel Ida. Jane Malcolm is an associate professor of English at the Université de Montréal. She is the coeditor of an edition of Laura Riding's 1928 book of criticism Contemporaries and Snobs.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Letters of Laura Riding and Gertrude Stein
Appendix
The New Barbarism, and Gertrude Stein
Laura Riding
An Acquaintance with Description
Gertrude Stein
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics
Zusatzinfo	18 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Albuquerque, NM
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9780826368058 / 9780826368058
Zustand	Neuware