Transatlantic Aliens - Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Will Norman, Will (Senior Lecturer in North American Li Norman, Will (Senior Lecturer in North American Literature Norman, Norman Will
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.01.2017
• EAN: 9781421420943
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2094-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism; Hopkins Studies in Modernism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, HISTORY / Social History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000