Transatlantic aliens : modernism, exile, and culture in midcentury America /
"This book is about how a set of European writers, intellectuals, and artists encountered and negotiated American culture in the mid-twentieth century. The "Intellectual Migration" of the 1930s and '40s has long been recognized as one of the most important moments in twentieth-ce...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2016]
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Series: | Hopkins studies in modernism.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Homeless aliens and dialectical culture critique: C.L.R. James and Theodor Adorno
- The yankee from Berlin: George Grosz
- The big empty: Raymond Chandler's transatlantic modernism
- The taste of freedom: Simone de Beauvoir, Vladimir Nabokov and the intellectual road trip
- Saul Steinberg's vanishing trick: modernism, the state, and the cosmopolitan intellectual
- Conclusion: not to grin is a sin.