A Description of Acquaintance : The Letters of Laura Riding and Gertrude Stein, 1927-1930 (Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-century American Poetics)

Esdale, Logan (EDT)/ Malcolm, Jane (EDT)

University of New Mexico Press（2025/06発売）

University of New Mexico Press（2025/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 176 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780826368058
• DDC分類 811.52

Full Description

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.

Contents

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