Stein on Writing: a list

"Composition as Explanation" (1926)
Written and delivered as a lecture at Oxford, 1926. Published
in the Dial (October 1926) and in Composition as Explanation
(Hogarth Press, 1926). Also includes "Precillosa." Both included
in Library of America Stein. Writings 1903-1932 (1999). "Composition
as Explanation also included in What are Masterpieces (1940) and in
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein. Edited with and Introduction and
notes by Carl Van Vechten (Modern Library, 1962).

"An Acquaintance with Description" (1929)
Published and hand set by Robert Graves and Laura Riding (Mallorca, Seizin Press, 1929).
included in Library of America Stein. Writings 1903-1932 (1999).

How to Write (1931)
Collection originally published Paris, Plain Wrapper Press, 1931. Reprinted 1995 by Sun and Moon
Press. Includes:
Saving the Sentence
Sentences and Paragraphs
Arthur, a Grammar
A gramamarian
Sentences
Regular regularly, in Narrative
Finally, George, a vocabulary of Thinking
Forensics


Lectures in America (1935)
Collection first published in 1935 by Random House includes the
Lectures written in 1934 and delivered over 1934-35 on the American
lecture tour
What is English Literature
Pictures
Plays
The Gradual Making of the Making…
Portraits and Repititions
Poetry & Grammar

Narration (1935)

What are Masterpieces (1940)
Composition as Explanation
Identity, A poem
What are Masterpieces and why are there so few of them


Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945 (1967)
Edited by Patricia Meyerowitx, Originally published by Peter Owen London, 1967.
Reprinted as Look at Me now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures 1909-1945
(Penguin, 1971). Includes as Part One "Lectures:"
Composition as Explanation
What is English Literature
Plays
The Gradual Making of The Making of the Americans
Portraits and Repetition
Poetry and Grammar
What are Masterpieces and Why are Their So Few of Them
Also includes among "Later Works" Henry James.

A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein (1971)
This collection published in Los Angeles by Black Sparrow Press, 1971 and edited
by Robert Bartlett Hass. Includes "A Transatlantic Interview" and " A Little Anthology
of Gertrude Stein 1894-1946:"
Radcliffe Themes
Narrative as Process
Use of the Continuous Present
Direct Description: The Visible World
Direct Description: The Audible World
Direct Description; Movement in Space
Nature and Emotions
Literary Music
Syntax and Elucidation
Disembodied Movement
Identity: Audience Writing
Entity: Really Writing

How Writing is Written (1974)