"Tender Buttons" by Gertrude Stein is a book published in 1914 consisting of three sections: "Objects", "Food", and "Rooms". Through experimental language, Stein transforms everyday mundane subjects into unfamiliar territory, attempting to capture things as they truly are rather than how we typically describe them. Influenced by Cubist painter Pablo Picasso, she explores multiple perspectives while stripping away conventional meanings. The work has sparked fierce debate—hailed as a masterpiece of verbal Cubism and criticized as confusing gibberish, with scholars finding hidden themes of sexuality woven throughout its unorthodox poems. ... Read more
About this eBook
| Author | Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 |
|---|---|
| Title | Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tender_Buttons_(book) |
| Credits | Produced by Suzanne Shell, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Prose poems |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 15396 |
| Release Date | Mar 17, 2005 |
| Last Update | Dec 14, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 2896 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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