Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the prose, poetry, plays, and libretti of Gertrude Stein in college literature and composition classrooms, including consideration of race, gender, sexuality, narrative, diversity, identity, and visual arts. Includes information on reference works, online resources, and clerical orders. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses.

Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the prose, poetry, plays, and libretti of Gertrude Stein in college literature and composition classrooms, including consideration of race, gender, sexuality, narrative, diversity, identity, and visual arts. Includes information on reference works, online resources, and clerical orders. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses.

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...