Stein, Gender, Isolation, and Industrialism: New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio re-visits the best known work of the influential American writer, Sherwood Anderson. This book served as the doctoral dissertation of Duane Simolke at Texas Tech University, December 1996. Dr. Simolke examines Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, as it relates to Gertrude Stein, gender roles, gay subtext, failed communication, and the machine in the garden. Anderson's friendship with and admiration of Stein greatly affected the contents and writing style of Winesburg. Simolke also looks at how Winesburg reflects Anderson's concerns about mechanization, loneliness, and the mistreatment of many people. Dr. Simolke has also written The Acorn Stories, also published by to Excel, a collection of fiction collection that was influenced by Stein, Anderson, and various other writers.
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A look at Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein
In this book, I consider Gertrude Stein, gender roles, gay subtext, the machine in the garden, feelings of isolation, and attempts at communication, as they all relate to Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece. I also consider Anderson's overlooked novel Poor White. Winesburg, Ohio and Stein's writings had a strong influence on my book The Acorn Stories, though I didn't discover them until well after I started writing that book. Please visit Amazon.com's (America) listing of The Acorn Stories for details of those influences; just click on the interview link after you get there.
In this book, I consider Gertrude Stein, gender roles, gay subtext, the machine in the garden, feelings of isolation, and attempts at communication, as they all relate to Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece. I also consider Anderson's overlooked novel Poor White. Winesburg, Ohio and Stein's writings had a strong influence on my book The Acorn Stories, though I didn't discover them until well after I started writing that book. Please visit Amazon.com's (America) listing of The Acorn Stories for details of those influences; just click on the interview link after you get there.
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The writing of Dr. Duane Simolke (pronounced Dwain Smoky) has appeared in dozens of publications, including Nightfire, Mesquite, The International Journal on World Peace, and Beyond: Science Fiction and Fantasy. He was born in New Orleans on May 28, 1965. Majoring in English, he received his B.A. at Belmont University (Nashville, TN, '89), his M.A. at Hardin-Simmons University (Abilene, TX, '91), and his Ph.D. at Texas Tech University (Lubbock, TX, '96).
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This slender but informative volume offers new ways of viewing the familiar classic Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson. Though some might dislike the feminist angle and the homosexual angle, Simolke does give new insights into Anderson's work.
The compararisons of Winesburg with Anderson's Poor White and Gertrude Stein's "Melanctha" are also helpful, without too much emphasis on "queer theory" and other academic trends.
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Gertrude Stein Lives on!
15 Sep 2002
By Len
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Stein, Gender, Isolation, and Industrialism New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio
by Duane Simolke
Reviewed by Joe Wright
This book is the work of Dr Simolke. It served as his doctoral dissertation. It shows the relationship between Sherwood Anderson, his work and Gertrude Stein. In Dr Simolke's own words, "I consider Gertrude Stein, gender roles, the machine in the garden, feelings of isolation, and attempts at communication, as they all relate to Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece."
by Duane Simolke
Reviewed by Joe Wright
This book is the work of Dr Simolke. It served as his doctoral dissertation. It shows the relationship between Sherwood Anderson, his work and Gertrude Stein. In Dr Simolke's own words, "I consider Gertrude Stein, gender roles, the machine in the garden, feelings of isolation, and attempts at communication, as they all relate to Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece."
Of course the masterpiece he is talking about is the story cycle, Winesburg, Ohio. Published in 1919 about a small town in Ohio becoming industrialized and what that does to the lives of the people of Winesburg.
New Readings would be a great companion to go along with Anderson's Winesburg. It gives you not only the history of Mr. Anderson, but also the history of his stories. In Chapter 4 Men and Women, Dr. Simolke talks about how Mr Anderson's 1923 novel Many Marriages was banned by many libraries and book stores due to the fact that the book mainly focuses on nudity and sex.
If your a tried and true fan of Gertrude Stein or Sherwood Anderson New Readings is a must have!
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Learn why "twisted" apples are sweet
28 Dec 2001
By Ronald L. Donaghe
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Pour yourself a little brandy, pull your chair up to the fire, and read Duane Simolke's Stein, Gender, Isolation, and Industrialism: New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio. Better yet, dust off your copy of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and then read Simolke's remarkable explication of Sherwood Anderson, the influence that the great Gertrude Stein had on his writing style, and the equally important effect of turn-of-the-century industrialization on Anderson and the stories he tells. In this straightforward, yet literary accounting of Anderson's Winesburg narratives, you will come to a fuller understanding of what motivated Anderson to write his story cycle, what part homoeroticism and homophobia played in the story "Hands" and "The Untold Lie." 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
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Refreshing and original
13 Dec 2000
By Drew Brainiard
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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.
In seven chapters Dr. Simolke (whose lyrical collection THE ACORN STORIES was clearly influenced by Stein and Anderson) examines themes of alienation, sexuality and gender in Anderson's masterpiece WINESBURG, OHIO.
Bringing fresh perspective to Anderson's best known work (considered by critics to be a forerunner of modern fiction with its focus on "real folks" and small town America of the early 20th Century), Simolke candidly explores sexual subtext.
In "More Than Man or Woman" he writes, "I call attention to all this terminology because Anderson transcends those societal perceptions of gayness; his use of gay themes has little to do with sex and everything to do with human contact."
Do we need still one more analysis of the work of another dead white guy? Yes, most certainly, when it is as refreshingly and unabashedly enthusiastic as Simolke's. Criticized as being sentimental and outdated, WINESBURG becomes relevant again in this unapologetic and insightful re-reading.
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