ts big dogs 2014 edition #2 : GERTRUDE STEIN vs THE BRONTES

oh yeah I read the Alice B. Toklas

Like Janet Malcolm's book on Stein, specifically a scene where she takes a knife to The Making of Americans

That's all I have..

ignorant of all of these :/ but if i weren't i'd probably vote the brontes

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I didn't get to contribute to the Bronte poll, but Charlotte is the best Bronte and would take this. I was hoping for a Charlotte vs Dickens poll or something so I could really get into it. Emily rules and WH is a contender for best Bronte novel. But Villette is as wild as WH and possibly my favorite novel period.. and then Jane Eyre was my ultimate page turning obsession.. AND Shirley is super-underrated because people think it's about mill owners and worker uprisings when it's really about the sequences where religion and business and politics are reborn as the domains of women in passages so beautiful I'm reduced to tears.

Emily is the best poet and her student essays are better and v sharp but three could be goat novels beat one. Grouping them together prroblematic.

fwiw another one i was considering was SHAKESPEARE versus EZRA POUND AND ALSO T S ELIOT

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Considering a few couplings too

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Local Oxfam has a copy of Making of the Americans and I'm like I dunno.

It's a singular novel, but I don't think I could have finished it without being in a very committed reading group, and I say that as someone who loves a good deal of Stein's later work. Three Lives, Tender Buttons, "Lifting Belly," the autobiographies, and Stanzas in Meditation are all more immediately rewarding.

I need to find myself into one of those reading groups that read Making of the Americans. I liked Three Lives a lot at the time and Janet Malcolm's short study of Stein's work is good. I'll chase the rest of the smaller works - thanks.