{"product_id":"american-expatriate-writing-and-the-paris-moment-modernism-and-place-9780807122204","title":"American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment: Modernism and Place","description":"\u003cp\u003eMontparnasse and its caf  life, the shabby working-class area of the place de la Contrescarpe and the Pantheon, the small restaurants and caf s 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePizer elucidates a striking difference between the genres of expatriate autobiography and fiction, and arranges his discussion accordingly. He first examines Ernest Hemingway's \u003ci\u003eA Moveable Feast, \u003c\/i\u003e Gertrude Stein's \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Diary of Ana s Nin, 1931-1934, \u003c\/i\u003e all of which depict the emergence and triumph of the creative imagination within the Paris context. He then turns to Hemingway's \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Also Rises, \u003c\/i\u003e John Dos Passos' \u003ci\u003eNineteen-Nineteen, \u003c\/i\u003e and F. Scott Fitzgerald's \u003ci\u003eTender Is the Night, \u003c\/i\u003e which dramatize the tragic potential in seeking a richness and intensity of creative expression within the city's setting. Henry Miller's \u003ci\u003eTropic of Cancer, \u003c\/i\u003e a relatively late example of American expatriate writing, constitutes a synthesis of the two tendencies, Pizer shows. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald Pizer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.03w x 0.43d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807122204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDonald Pizer is Pierce Butler Professor of English at Tulane University, where he has taught since 1957. Among his many books are \u003ci\u003eDos Passos' \"U.S.A.\" A Critical Study\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTwentieth-Century American Literary Naturalism: An Interpretation.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40161537392755,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a592ad40-93b6-459a-8c71-bdfa97e43afa.jpg?v=1654954670","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/american-expatriate-writing-and-the-paris-moment-modernism-and-place-9780807122204","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}