Studies in Description: Reading Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons

by Carl Peters

Difficult writing has its way of illuminating the part of the world that counts. One such difficult text is Gertrude Stein's highly experimental Tender Buttons: objects, food, rooms - long considered the single most groundbreaking literary work of twentieth-century art, literary criticism, and art history. One hundred years since publication, Carl Peters offers a sustained reading of the 1914 edition, responding to the eccentric sounds and rhythms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889229619
• ISBN13: 9780889229617
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"