Blog from Lubbock, Texas, Author Duane Simolke.
Ch. I: Introduction
Ch. II: Anderson And Stein: Symbiosis
Ch. III: Teachers Groping In The Dark
Ch. IV: Men And Women
Ch. V: “More Than Man Or Woman”
Ch. VI: Industrialism: The Machine In The Berry Field
Ch. VII: Conclusion: Closing The Book Of The Grotesque
Kindle Edition * Barnes & Noble Nook eBook * Excerpts from The Acorn Stories * The Individual Stories * Reading Group Questions * Historical Acorn, Texas
Book Trailer: West Texas Fiction Book Trailer 2: Texas
Study.Com: Hands by Sherwood Anderson: Summary & Analysis
Shmoop: Death in the Woods by Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson on a Human Being's Well of Thinking
Notes in the Margin: Review: “Winesburg, Ohio” by Sherwood Anderson
Winesburg Ohio by Sherwood Anderson Review by Kimberly Campbell Moore
Sherwood Anderson on being alive by mjanecolette
philipsmith.eu: New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio
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“Refreshing, interesting and educating.” –Amos Lassen, Literary Pride
“What a pleasure to read a dissertation embracing the poetry and passion of simple language as well as the art of old-fashioned story-telling exemplified by the often underrated Sherwood Anderson.” –Watchword
“This work should be required reading in any college course involving the art and craft of short-story writing as well as in courses on Sherwood Anderson, himself. I found the greatest pleasure in reading a while from Simolke's work, then reading from Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. Simolke's book is a great reading guide, as well as a thoughtful and measured reading experience all by itself.” –Ronald L. Donaghe, author of Uncle Sean
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CH. I INTRODUCTION
CH. II ANDERSON AND STEIN: SYMBIOSIS
CH. III TEACHERS GROPING IN THE DARK
CH. IV MEN AND WOMEN
CH. V "MORE THAN MAN OR WOMAN"
CH. VI INDUSTRIALISM: THE MACHINE IN THE BERRY FIELD
CH. VII CONCLUSION: CLOSING THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
From CHAPTER II
ANDERSON AND STEIN: SYMBIOSIS
As I begin to reevaluate the place of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio in the development of American fiction, I first want to look at Anderson's symbiotic relationship with Gertrude Stein, a relationship most Stein devotees will know about through her The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, in which Stein pretends to write as her lover, Alice. Anyone interested in Stein or Anderson should also read Sherwood Anderson/Gertrude Stein, edited by Ray Lewis White. This book features chronological excerpts from their letters to each other and from their published comments about each other.
Anderson apparently came to love Stein through some of her portraits and through her 1909 book Three Lives. Stein generated considerable controversy with Lives, a controversy she would sustain with her subsequent works. In writing about the critical reactions to her prose, she sounds as frustrated as Anderson often felt, and much of what she says about her frustration could apply to Anderson, who appears prominently and constantly in literary anthologies and literary history books, yet continues to receive the label "marginal.” Stein says the newspapers claim "that my writing is appalling but they always quote it and what is more, they quote it correctly, and those they say they admire they do not quote" (Alice 70). The newspapers, however, reflected the general public, who found Stein's work fascinating and repulsive.
Use the labels below to find Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein links.
Sophistication: Miette’s Bedtime Story Podcast.
The Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia: Sherwood Anderson.
Teach or Write About Winesburg, Ohio.
Today in History: September 13.
Today in Literature: Sherwood Anderson.
The Victorian Literary Studies Archive: Hyper-Concordance.
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia: Sherwood Anderson.
The Winesburg, Ohio Photo Album.
Winesburg, Ohio/Self-Knowledge.
Stein, Gender, Isolation, and Industrialism: New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio
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Google Authors Directory: Sherwood Anderson.
”Hands,” by Sherwood Anderson.
HarperCollins: Sherwood Anderson.
Hemingway in Michigan/The Torrents of Spring
Hemingway’s Paris: Sherwood Anderson.
Internet Movie Database: Sherwood Anderson.
Mid-American Review: Sherwood Anderson Contest.
Modern English Collection/E-Texts at Virginia U.
Ohioana Authors: Sherwood Anderson.
Open Directory: Sherwood Anderson.
Parallel Studies in American/Afro-American Literature.
Penn State’s Electronic Classics Series: Sherwood Anderson.
Perspectives in American Literature:
Sherwood Anderson.
Random House: Sherwood Anderson.
San Antonio College Sherwood Anderson Page.
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941).
Sherwood Anderson: A Brief Biography.
Sherwood Anderson: The New Great Books & Philosophy Forum.
Sherwood Anderson at the Mad Cybrarian's Library.
Sherwood Anderson Classroom Issues and Strategies.
The Sherwood Anderson Collection.
The Sherwood Anderson Festival.
The Sherwood Anderson Foundation.
Sherwood Anderson: InfoPlease.
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are now available, along with Stein, Gender, Isolation, and Industrialism: New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio and my story cycle The Acorn Stories. That latter book involves the intertwined lives of various people in a small West Texas town.
