Transatlantic aliens : modernism, exile, and culture in midcentury America /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Norman, Will, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]
Series:Hopkins studies in modernism.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Europeans > United States > History > 20th century.
Modernism (Art)
Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Modernisme (Art)
Modernisme (Littérature)
Modernisme (Esthétique)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Civilization.
Europeans.
Intellectual life.
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
United States > Civilization > 20th century.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 20e siècle.
United States.
History.
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.

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