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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Norman, Will, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Art)
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Intellectual life.
Europeans.
Civilization.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Modernisme (Esthetique)
Modernisme (Litterature)
Modernisme (Art)
Europeans > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 20e siecle.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle.
United States > Civilization > 20th century.
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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