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- catalog abstract "Montparnasse and its cafe life, the shabby working-class area of the place de la Contrescarpe and the Pantheon, the small restaurants and cafes along the Seine, and the Right Bank world of the well-to-do ... for American writers self-exiled to Paris during the 1920s and 1930s, the French capital represented what their homeland could not a milieu that through the freedom of thought and action it permitted and the richness of life it offered, nurtured the full expression of the creative imagination. How these expatriates interpreted and gave modernist shape to the myth of "the Paris moment" in their writing is the altogether fresh focus of Donald Pizer's study of seven of their major works. Through careful readings of the texts, Pizer identifies both the common threads in the expatriates' response to the Paris moment and the distinctive expression each work gives to their shared experience. Most important, he addresses the neglected question of how the portrayal of the Paris scene helps shape a specific work's themes and form. He traces such experimental devices as fragmented or cubistic narrative forms, the dramatic representation of consciousness, and sexual explicitness, and explores the powerful and evocative tropes of mobility and feeding. As Pizer demonstrates, Paris between the two world wars was for the American expatriates more than a geographical entity. It was a state of mind, an experience that engendered the formal expression of a personal aesthetic. The engaging and significant interplay between artist, place and innovative self-reflexive forms composes, Pizer maintains the most distinctive contribution of expatriate writing to the literary movement called high modernism.".
- catalog contributor b9475404.
- catalog coverage "Paris (France) In literature.".
- catalog coverage "Paris (France) Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "As Pizer demonstrates, Paris between the two world wars was for the American expatriates more than a geographical entity. It was a state of mind, an experience that engendered the formal expression of a personal aesthetic. The engaging and significant interplay between artist, place and innovative self-reflexive forms composes, Pizer maintains the most distinctive contribution of expatriate writing to the literary movement called high modernism.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-146) and index.".
- catalog description "Montparnasse and its cafe life, the shabby working-class area of the place de la Contrescarpe and the Pantheon, the small restaurants and cafes along the Seine, and the Right Bank world of the well-to-do ... for American writers self-exiled to Paris during the 1920s and 1930s, the French capital represented what their homeland could not a milieu that through the freedom of thought and action it permitted and the richness of life it offered, nurtured the full expression of the creative imagination. How these expatriates interpreted and gave modernist shape to the myth of "the Paris moment" in their writing is the altogether fresh focus of Donald Pizer's study of seven of their major works.".
- catalog description "Prologue: The shape of the myth -- The moment remembered and imagined : autobiography -- Ernest Hemingway way : A moveable feast -- Gertrude Stein : The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas -- The diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934 -- The moment imagined and remembered : fiction -- Ernest Hemingway : The sun also rises -- John Dos Passos : Nineteen-Nineteen -- F. Scott Fitzgerald : Tender is the night -- The moment synthesized -- Henry Miller : Tropic of Cancer.".
- catalog description "Through careful readings of the texts, Pizer identifies both the common threads in the expatriates' response to the Paris moment and the distinctive expression each work gives to their shared experience. Most important, he addresses the neglected question of how the portrayal of the Paris scene helps shape a specific work's themes and form. He traces such experimental devices as fragmented or cubistic narrative forms, the dramatic representation of consciousness, and sexual explicitness, and explores the powerful and evocative tropes of mobility and feeding.".
- catalog extent "xv, 149 p. :".
- catalog identifier "080712026X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Modernist studies".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "France Paris".
- catalog spatial "France Paris.".
- catalog spatial "Paris (France) In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Paris (France) Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "810.9/813044361 20".
- catalog subject "American literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American literature France Paris History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American literature French influences.".
- catalog subject "Americans France Paris History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) France Paris.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) United States.".
- catalog subject "PS159.F5 P59 1996".
- catalog subject "Place (Philosophy) in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: The shape of the myth -- The moment remembered and imagined : autobiography -- Ernest Hemingway way : A moveable feast -- Gertrude Stein : The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas -- The diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934 -- The moment imagined and remembered : fiction -- Ernest Hemingway : The sun also rises -- John Dos Passos : Nineteen-Nineteen -- F. Scott Fitzgerald : Tender is the night -- The moment synthesized -- Henry Miller : Tropic of Cancer.".
- catalog title "American expatriate writing and the Paris moment : modernism and place / Donald Pizer.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".