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Tender Buttons is a 1914 book by American writer Gertrude Stein consisting of three sections titled "Objects", "Food", and "Rooms". The short book consists of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane. Stein's experimental use of language renders the poems unorthodox and their subjects unfamiliar.
- Gertrude Stein
- 1914
Tender Buttons [Objects] Gertrude Stein. 1874 –. 1946. A CARAFE, THAT IS A BLIND GLASS. A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange a single hurt color and an arrangement in a system to pointing. All this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling. The difference is spreading.
Mar 17, 2005 · The Project Gutenberg EBook of Tender Buttons, by Gertrude Stein This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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by Gertrude Stein. Tender Buttons Analysis. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous. Those that approach Tender Buttons expecting a sensical, linear narrative are sorely mistaken.
- Gertrude Stein
Tender Buttons is a collection of prose-poems that describe objects, food, and rooms in a Cubist style, with no conventional syntax or meaning. The book, published in 1914, is a masterpiece of verbal Cubism, a modernist triumph, a spectacular failure, a hoax, or an intentional hoax, depending on the reader's interpretation.
Tender Buttons, book of poems by Gertrude Stein, first published in 1914 as Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms. Heavily influenced by Cubism, the poetry in this work was considered by some critics to have taken abstraction and fragmentation past the limits of comprehensibility.
Mar 17, 2005 · Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946: Title: Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms Credits: Produced by Suzanne Shell, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Language: English: LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature: Subject: Prose poems Category: Text: EBook-No. 15396: Release Date: Mar 17 ...
