A Gertrude Stein primer—ModPo videos for those who want to understand Stein

Over the years we at ModPo have assembled a number of short videos that will help you introduce yourself to the (supposed) “difficulty” of Gertrude Stein. These are available in the first section of the ModPoPLUS week 4 syllabus. And here are links:

1.1 watch discussion on how we assess and value Stein’s writing:LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]

1.2 watch Rachel Blau DuPlessis describe how Stein resists normative reading: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]

1.3 watch discussion on whether close reading works for Stein: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]

1.4 watch Bob Perelman discuss what the mind must do to read Stein: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]

1.5 watch Bob Perelman on Stein’s version of the idea that a poem is a word machine: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]

1.6 watch discussion on how Stein’s readers participate in discovery: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]

1.7 watch discussion on how Stein disrupts reading: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]

1.8 watch discussion on Stein & jazz, movement & improvisation: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]

1.9 watch discussion of Stein’s phrase “All this an not ordinary”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]

1.10 watch discussion of Stein’s phrase “An arrangement in a system to pointing”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]

1.11 watch discussion of Stein’s phrase “The difference is spreading”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]

1.12 watch further discussion of Stein’s views of beginning-to-end narrative: LINK TO VIDEO (8 mins.)

1.13 watch discussion of Stein as pedagogy: LINK TO VIDEO (7.5 mins.)

1.14 watch discussion of Stein & the labor of listening: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]

1.15 watch discussion of Stein as a conversationalist: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]

1.16 watch discussion of materiality in Stein: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]

1.17 watch ModPo recommendations for those new to Stein: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]

1.18 watch discussion of Stein & honesty: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]