a Canadian view on the avant-garde Paris of the 1920s / Astrid M. Fellner. Judgements of Paris and falling Troy : the French metropolis as a site of cultural archaeology in James Joyce's Ulysses and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Babylon revisited / Dieter Fuchs -- Midwives to modernism : three women's contributions to the making of the avant-garde / Elke Mettinger -- Jean Rhys's vision of the Left Bank / Margarete Rubik -- La vie toute faite des morceaux : intermediality and impressionism in Jean Rhys's Quartet / Eva Müller-Zettelmann and Rudolf Weiss -- The surrealist artist is strolling around with the little puppy-dog Sigmund Freud at his heels : perceptions of space, the subconscious and gender codifications in 1920s Paris / Elke Frietsch -- Picturing the metropolis : Paris in the eye of the camera / Petra Löffler -- Topography of a city of differences : René Crevel's La mort difficile, 1926 / Birgit Wagner -- The pull of the metropolis : the Années folles from a Belgian perspective, or the Paris of Maigret / Sylvia Schreiber -- Black Paris in the 1920s and René Maran's novel Batouala / Manuel Chemineau -- Americans in Paris : Huidobro, Girondo, Tarsiwald, Vallejo / Friedrich Frosch -- The plague in Paris or burning cities : Bruno Jasieński versus Paul Morand / Martina Stemberger -- Claire Goll : Eine Deutsche in Paris (Une Allemande à Paris) / Jörg Türschmann -- Studies in buitenkant-Studies in surroundings : Edgar Du Perron and the modernists / Herbert Van Uffelen -- It is evil; it is beautiful; it is fascinating; it is bewildering : Thomas Wolfe's Paris of the 1920s / Bettina Thurner -- At last lost in Paris : a Canadian view on the avant-garde Paris of the 1920s / Astrid M. Fellner.
Summary:
From the late 19th century onwards Paris had been a congenial locus for bohemian life. By 1920 Montparnasse had superseded Montmartre as the intellectual and artistic heart of the city, inaugurating a decade of unequalled creative achievement and innovative self-performance. These were the years of the 'Roaring Twenties' or années folles . "Paris"--As Gertrude Stein famously remarked - "was where the twentieth century was". The Rive Gauche offered a carnivalesque atmosphere of liberality, where the manifold experiments of the avant-garde could breathe freely. This volume attempts to do justic.
Series:
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 144
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