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Author:

Winnett, Susan.

Title:

Writing back : American expatriates' narratives of return / Susan Winnett.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xi, 285 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Autobiography.
James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation.
Stearns, Harold,--1891-1943--Criticism and interpretation.
Cowley, Malcolm,--1898-1989--Criticism and interpretation.
Stein, Gertrude,--1874-1946--Criticism and interpretation.
Expatriate authors--Psychology.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
United States--In literature.
Europe--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: writing back: American expatriates' narratives of return -- Framing the un-scene/writing the wrongs : Henry James's text of America -- An intellectual is being beaten : the escape and return of Harold E. Stearns -- Wo Mama war, soll Dada werden : Malcolm Cowley's odyssey of legitimation -- Everybody's autobiography : the remaking of an American -- Postcript.

Series:

Rethinking theory

ISBN:

1421407825 (electronic)
9781421407821 (electronic)
142140740X (hdbk. : alk. paper)
9781421407401 (hdbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)780288810

LCCN:

2012008909

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)