ENG 3378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Microsoft Powerpoint, Henri Matisse
9 May 2018
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ENG3378- May 7, 2018- Lecture 2
Gertrude Steis’ Artisti Ifluees & ifluee
• Several artists helped to get into Steins head for where she was writing Three lives
• 3 paintings – Paul Cezanne- Picasso- Henri Matisse
• Book that very much wants to challenge the roles of gender roles- ask questions of the roles
• We need to think about the effects of these artists on Steins works
• Cezanne is what made her go from dabbling in careers to becoming serious as a writer
• She kne she as upset ith the ritig of the tie ut did’t ko ho to hage it- it as’t
until her brother came home with a Cezanne canvas that she knew what she wanted to write
about
• In your own time go back over the PowerPoint and take a look at the canvas pictures
• Emphasis on wholeness
• She is more known of the artistic relationships she had more than her works
• Stein wanted to scrap the idea of beginning, middle, and end
• Perception and perspective- cannot fully understand unless they go together- cannot
understand perception without understanding Picassos perspective and vice versa
• She was nothing but a avid self promoter- she knew lots of important artists of her time
however believed herself to be the most important
• No one did anything more brilliant than Stein- Said Stein
• Henri Jameskey phrase of sho do’t tell - used his older brothers (William James) theory of
stream of consciences – automatic writing- start writing and unwire the brain on paper as you
write- past, present, and to future
• Forever moving forward
• Writing could demonstrate that function of the brain- make us aware of how the past impacts us
• Everything we were will influence what we will become- we can never escape our past
• We bring this forth in the stream of conscience
• Stein disagreed with this- we live newly created in the moment of our existence- always in the
created present- new person with every second
• What does Stein mean in making it new?
• By the tie you fiish y ook you o’t hae that ofort ayore
• Good old fashioned 1900 narratives
• Refer to brightspace for further details on Stein
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