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Title Ideas crossing the Atlantic : theories, normative conceptions, and cultural images / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz & Christoph Irmscher (eds.)
Published Vienna : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (445 pages) : illustrations (some color), map, portraits
Series Sitzungsberichte (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) ; 896. Band
Sitzungsberichte (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) ; 896. Bd.
Contents Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz & Christoph Irmscher -- Transatlantic Inspiration In Early 20th Century Fiction -- Henryk Sienkiewicz and the Great American Novel / Kasia Boddy -- Frederick Philip Grove : An Internationalist in Early Literary Canada / David Staines -- Europe as Seen through the Lens of the U.S. South : Booker T. Washington's The Man Farthest Down Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. -- Hemingway between American Myths and European Reality / Rosella Mamoli Zorzi -- Transatlantic Impressions And The Consequences Of The Great War -- American Ideas about Charity, Sacrifice, and the Nursing Profession during The Great War : Autobiographical Writings of Nurses Serving at the Front / Ineke Bockting -- "The Luck Is on Our Nose" : Ideas of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Crossing the Atlantic / Gudrun M. Grabher -- The Transatlantic Transfer Of Ideas Especially In Poetry And Drama -- The Reluctant Aeneas: Virgil and Empire in Faulkner and Tate / Joseph Kuhn -- "Each of Us Beholds Himself in You" : Reading Wallace Stevens and George Santayana / William V. Davis -- Thornton Wilder's European Sojourns, Literary Contacts, and His Role as a Transatlantic Mediator / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz -- Philosophic Ideas And Their Transatlantic Reception -- "Traveling Ideas" : American Pragmatism and European Philosophical Discourse : Aspects of a Stimulating Interaction / Ludwig Nagl -- The Interpretive Approach Crossing the Atlantic / Manfred Prisching -- Jean-Paul Sartre in the International Context of the Post-War Period and the Reception of Existentialism in the USA / Jörg Türschmann -- Crossing the Atlantic : American Inspirations for Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Political / Sophie Loidolt -- Wittgenstein Goes West / Steven Burns -- The Transfer Of Political Ideas And Post-World War Two Policies -- Denazification in Germany and the Rockefeller Foundation / Tibor Frank -- Daniel Aaron's Atlantic Crossings / Christoph Irmscher -- Transatlantic Developments : Reception And Inspiration After World War Two -- Before the Fall : Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White's 1938 Visit to Czechoslovakia / Marcel Arbeit -- The Political and Cultural Transfer of Ideas by Way of American Drama to Slovenian Theater and Literary Criticism Immediately after World War Two / Igor Maver -- The Productive Reception of the American Hard-Boiled Detective Novel in Post-1945 Austrian Literature / Wynfrid Kriegleder -- European Existentialism Becomes an Impetus for Change in the American South : Carson McCullers's Clock without Hands / Constante González Groba -- Reappraising Diversity : Canadian Multicultural Literature as World Literature in English / Martin Löschnigg -- Transatlantic Exchanges In Music And The Arts -- Frederick Kiesler's Visions and Ideas in Europe and the USA / Barbara Lesák -- Heinrich Schenker's Theory of Tonal Music in the American Academia / Martin Eybl -- Austrian Art-Historical Method in the United States : Meyer Schapiro and Emil Kaufmann / Karl Johns -- Moving Images, Changing Perspectives : A Transatlantic Interdisciplinary Look at Billy Wilder's The Emperor Waltz (1948) / Cornelia Szabó-Knotik & Jacqueline Vansant -- List Of Contributors -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Culture diffusion -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Culture diffusion -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Civilization
Civilization -- American influences
Civilization -- European influences
Culture diffusion
SUBJECT Europe -- Civilization -- American influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045643
United States -- Civilization -- European influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89001974
Europe -- Civilization -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045640
United States -- Civilization -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139942
Subject Europe
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar, editor
Irmscher, Christoph, editor
ISBN 9783700184928 (electronic bk)
3700184921 (electronic bk)
3700184875
9783700184874