American Writers in Paris

Then and Now
2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-66989-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

This book examines the works of American writers in Paris and explores the evolving interactions between these writers and French society from the 1800s to the present. It reveals a deepened understanding and an increased acceptance of different traditions and values, and shows a considerable cultural complexity, reflecting not only a transcontinental but also a global vision in the literature of these writers in the context of the City of Light. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Asya, Ferdâ

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction-Literary and Cultural Contexts.- Chapter 2: “The most hospitable of cities”: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Paris.- Chapter 3: The American in Paris: Sources, Stereotypes, American Exceptionalism, and Henry James’s Finding Herself Elsewhere: Grace King, Madame Blanc, and .- Chapter 5: The Chronotope of “the Temporary Autonomous Zone” in Djuna Barnes's Save Me from the Waltz: Zelda Fitzgerald and the Trauma Cultures of Expatriate Paris.- Chapter 7: Worlds beyond All Fact and Flesh: William Faulkner, Paul Cézanne, and the Phenomenology of Visual Art.- Chapter 8: Reframing : Henry Miller’s Black(face) Book.- Chapter 9: William Gardner Smith’s A Novel Buried in Obscurity for Too Long.- Chapter 10:  : Edmund White’s Sketches of Loss.- Chapter 11: French Chic American Style: Self-governance and the Promise of Social Distinction in Debra Ollivier’s Jake Lamar’s Expatriate Mysteries: Exercising the Ghosts of Transcontinental Paris Noir.- Chapter 13: Switching Tongues beside the Seine: Translingual American Writers in Paris.

Über Autor(innen)

Ferdâ Asya is professor of English and she has taught at institutions of higher education nationally and internationally. She is the editor of   (2013) and   (2021).