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Stanzas in Meditation : The Corrected Edition / Gertrude Stein ; Edited by Susannah Hollister and Emily Setina ; With an Introduction by Joan Retallack.

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This edition of Stein's Stanzas in meditation is the first to confront the complicated story of its composition and revision. It includes a reliable reading text of Stein's original manuscript, as well as an appendix with the textual variants among the poem's several versions.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 (Author)
Other Authors: Hollister, Susannah (Editor), Setina, Emily (Editor), Retallack, Joan (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946. > Stanzas in meditation.
Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946 > Criticism, Textual.
Table of Contents:
  • On not not reading Stanzas in meditation : pressures and pleasures of the text / by Joan Retallack
  • The turning point : preface to the 1956 Stanzas in meditation / by Donald Sutherland
  • The impossible : Gertrude Stein, review of the 1956 Stanzas in meditation / by John Ashbery
  • Stanzas in meditation
  • Appendix A. Publication history
  • Appendix B. Reading text
  • Appendix C. Editorial practices
  • Appendix D. Notes.

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