Paris in American Literatures

On Distance as a Literary Resource

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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“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.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-05-16
Mått161 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt435 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor188
FörlagAssociated University Presses
ISBN9781611476071

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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.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction On Distance as a Literary Resource, Jeffrey Herlihy and Vamsi K. KoneruChapter 1 Emerson in Paris, C.R. ResetaritsChapter 2 Je l’ai dans mon sang!—Paris in Edith Wharton’s Madame de Treymes, Marta Miquel-BaldellouChapter 3Forget Paris: Sherwood Anderson and the American Expatriate Grotesque, Carl MillerChapter 4 From Dada to Nada: The Dadaist Influence on Hemingway’s Works Between1922-1926, Jonathan AustadChapter 5 The Nightinghouls of Paris: Robert McAlmon’s Queer Paternalism andThe Twilight of the Expatriate Movement, Chase DimockChapter 6 Miller’s Henry and Henry’s Paris, Katy MasugaChapter 7Chicago Adventures in Paris: Foreignness and Saul Bellow’s CreativeOpposition, Matthew CroweChapter 8 The Road to Paris in Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato, Nanette NorrisChapter 9“What Keeps you here?”: Paris, Language, and Exile in The Book of Salt by Monique Truong, Daniela FargioneEpilogue: The Futures of American Paris, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Vamsi K. KoneruIndexNotes on Contributors