Paris in American Literatures (eBook, PDF)

On Distance as a Literary Resource
Redaktion: Herlihy-Mera, Jeffrey; Koneru, Vamsi K.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

"Paris" could be the first word of an epic poem. While there are many cultural pilgrimages in Western Arts (The Alhambra, Venice, Mumbai, Machu Picchu, and others), Paris stands above others, flourishing as an image of possibility and sophistication. The city has a rich history with foreign artists and writers, intellectual and political exiles, military leaders and philosophers from all over the globe. Americans have gone to Paris since the colonial period-and their writing about the city is a captivating corpus of literature. Looking into novels, memoirs, poetry and other writings, Paris in American Literatures: On Distance as a Literary Resource examines the role of the French capital in the work of a diverse range of authors, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edith Wharton, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, Saul Bellow, Monica Truong, and many others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781683939030
• Artikelnr.: 74396976

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera is assistant professor of Humanities at University of Puerto Rico, the National Endowment for the Humanities Visiting Chair of Migrant/Transnational Studies at Albright College, and Fulbright Lecturer at Universidad del Azuay. Vamsi K. Koneru is a licensed clinical psychologist at Community Mental Health Affiliates, Inc. in New Britain, CT, where he specializes in migrant psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction On Distance as a Literary Resource, Jeffrey Herlihy and Vamsi
K. Koneru
Chapter 1 Emerson in Paris, C.R. Resetarits
Chapter 2 Je l'ai dans mon sang!-Paris in Edith Wharton's Madame de
Treymes, Marta Miquel-Baldellou
Chapter 3Forget Paris: Sherwood Anderson and the American Expatriate
Grotesque, Carl Miller
Chapter 4 From Dada to Nada: The Dadaist Influence on Hemingway's Works
Between
1922-1926, Jonathan Austad
Chapter 5 The Nightinghouls of Paris: Robert McAlmon's Queer Paternalism
and
The Twilight of the Expatriate Movement, Chase Dimock
Chapter 6 Miller's Henry and Henry's Paris, Katy Masuga
Chapter 7Chicago Adventures in Paris: Foreignness and Saul Bellow's
Creative
Opposition, Matthew Crowe
Chapter 8 The Road to Paris in Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, Nanette
Norris
Chapter 9"What Keeps you here?": Paris, Language, and Exile in The Book of
Salt by Monique Truong, Daniela Fargione
Epilogue: The Futures of American Paris, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Vamsi K.
Koneru
Index
Notes on Contributors