The lecture and reading are both about the author and poet Gertrude Stein. The author of the reading states that critics has pinned her work as an eccentricity worthy of little more that historical note. The lecture casts doubt on the claim made in the arguement.He thinks that author is being baised for his literary work.
Firstly, the author of the reading contends that Stein's work tend to be inaccessible to the reader because she did not clearly communicate her thought and emotions in her writing.Further, it notes that she took many of the concepts that underlay Cubism, a style of painting that emphasized visual representation without clear emotion. The lecture challenges on this claim by stating that Cubism style is incompatible with visual