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04037aam a2200529 i 4500 001 9C29E1EEE9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170203020341 008 160415t20162016mduaf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016007181 020 $a 1421420945 020 $a 9781421420943 035 $a (OCoLC)947041896 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d NYP $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 10 $a E169.1 $b .N754 2016 082 00 $a 973.91 $2 23 100 1 $a Norman, Will, $d 1978- $e author. 245 10 $a Transatlantic aliens : $b modernism, exile, and culture in midcentury America / $c Will Norman. 246 30 $a Modernism, exile, and culture in midcentury America 264 1 $a Baltimore : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xii, 263 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Hopkins studies in modernism 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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-century cultural history, but it has often been narrowly understood as a clash between a rarefied European modernist sensibility and a debased American mass culture. Transatlantic Aliens adopts a more capacious understanding of this encounter as a pivotal crisis point for modernism and culture more broadly, one at which claims for the autonomy of high culture became increasingly untenable, the geographical center of cultural authority was displaced, and the governing principles of the American cultural field went through a phase of dramatic instability. Transatlantic Aliens takes the form of a series of interlinked case studies, each addressing individual or paired transatlantic figures, from C.L.R. James and Simone de Beauvoir to George Grosz and Vladimir Nabokov. Detailed attention to individual artworks, novels, and works of criticism is combined with more distant readings that seek to understand their function within larger intellectual histories and cultural formations, spanning time and space. The objective in each case is to explore what the transatlantic trajectories of particular figures tell us not only about the development of their own practices but also about the fate of European high culture in the American century"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a 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. 651 0 $a United States $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Civilization $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Europeans $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Modernism (Art) 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) 650 0 $a Modernism (Aesthetics) 650 7 $a Civilization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862898 650 7 $a Europeans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00916820 650 7 $a Intellectual life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00975769 650 7 $a Modernism (Aesthetics) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01024439 650 7 $a Modernism (Art) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01024442 650 7 $a Modernism (Literature) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01024455 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Hopkins studies in modernism. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170203031624.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9C29E1EEE9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search