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Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America
Will Norman
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Description for Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America
Hardback. Examining hardboiled fiction through Flaubert, New Yorker cartoons through modernist painting, and Bette Davis through Hegel and Marx, Transatlantic Aliens challenges and changes the way we understand modernism's place in midcentury American culture. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages, 26, 18 black & white halftones, 8 colour plates. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 266 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
The intellectual migration to the United States of European writers, intellectuals, and artists in the 1930s and 1940s has often been narrowly seen as a clash between a rarefied European modernist sensibility and a debased American mass culture. In Transatlantic Aliens, Will Norman reorients our understanding of midcentury American culture by thinking dialectically about the interfusion of aesthetic and intellectual practices across both the cultural hierarchy and the Atlantic. The transatlantic exchanges of midcentury emerge in the book as a crisis point for modernism at which claims for the autonomy of high culture became increasingly untenable, the geographical center of ... Read more
The intellectual migration to the United States of European writers, intellectuals, and artists in the 1930s and 1940s has often been narrowly seen as a clash between a rarefied European modernist sensibility and a debased American mass culture. In Transatlantic Aliens, Will Norman reorients our understanding of midcentury American culture by thinking dialectically about the interfusion of aesthetic and intellectual practices across both the cultural hierarchy and the Atlantic. The transatlantic exchanges of midcentury emerge in the book as a crisis point for modernism at which claims for the autonomy of high culture became increasingly untenable, the geographical center of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Hopkins Studies in Modernism
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421420943
SKU
V9781421420943
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About Will Norman
Will Norman is a senior lecturer in American literature at the University of Kent. He is the author of Nabokov, History, and the Texture of Time.
Reviews for Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America
Writing with the style and vocabulary of modern intellectualism, [Norman] demonstrates the culture to which new scholars can aspire. Highly recommended.
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Norman shows that certain other emigres seemed to gather their powers from the very antagonistic differences they encountered. Even more relevant for us now, the European cosmopolitans encountered a wave of right-wing authoritarianism and xenophobia that ... Read more
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Norman shows that certain other emigres seemed to gather their powers from the very antagonistic differences they encountered. Even more relevant for us now, the European cosmopolitans encountered a wave of right-wing authoritarianism and xenophobia that ... Read more