Stanzas in meditation
Subtitle: the corrected edition
By: Gertrude Stein ; edited by Susannah Hollister and Emily Setina ; with an introduction by Joan Retallack
Contributors: Hollister, Susannah; Setina, Emily; Retallack, Joan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780300153095
Subjects: Textual Criticism
Description: 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.
Notes: "In association with the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library."
Table of contents: title: On not not reading 'Stanzas in meditation' : pressures and pleasures of the text / by Joan Retallack; title: The turning point : preface to the 1956 'Stanzas in meditation' / by Donald Sutherland; title: The impossible : Gertrude Stein, review of the 1956 'Stanzas in meditation' / by John Ashbery; title: Stanzas in meditation; title: Appendix A. Publication history; title: Appendix B. Reading text; title: Appendix C. Editorial practices; title: Appendix D. Notes.