Essays on Gertrude Stein

Scholars and acolytes of Gertrude Stein prefer to refer to her as "The Mother of Us All" as the attribution of her last dramaturgical opera inspired by the figure of the American feminist Susan B. Anthony. This definition would suggest a bond of deferential respect and intimate cultural affiliation by certain groups of writers and critics positioned on the edge of the traditional culture. All these scholars were gathered around Gertrude Stein as around a true pioneer of feminism and gender studies. The linguistic revolution that took place in hers works was astonishing and impressed all of them. She was a giant, a ...

The relationship of Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein has to be understood in this study and Gertrude Stein’s friendship with Picasso and her influence in his artwork and development of career. Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain and later, he has been associated with a large group of writers and artists in early stage of career. In 1904, Pablo Picasso settled in Paris and got friendly with artist named Georges Braque. Later, Picasso and Braque have developed Cubism (Baldassari, 2006). The painting style of Picasso has been changed many a times in his overall career and then ...

The American lost generation of the 1920s is the generation of the American women and men who came of age immediately after the First World War or during the war. This is the generation that is considered to be experienced in war following their involvement in the war and social upheaval of the time. This group lacked cultural identity because of the cynical nature of the war and the emotional stability. Additionally, the lost generation also includes the writers like the John Dos Paso’s, Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemmingway, F. Therefore, the lost generation focuses on the United ...