Imagining Paris : exile, writing, and American identity /
Book review: Reviewed in 1993jun CHOICE. "Kennedy, J. Gerald. Imagining Paris: exile, writing, and American identity. Yale, 1993. 269p index afp ISBN 0-300-05747-4, $30.00. New from Yale Though "not a comprehensive historical view" of Americans in Paris from 1900 to 1940, this book of...
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| Summary: | Book review: Reviewed in 1993jun CHOICE. "Kennedy, J. Gerald. Imagining Paris: exile, writing, and American identity. Yale, 1993. 269p index afp ISBN 0-300-05747-4, $30.00. New from Yale Though "not a comprehensive historical view" of Americans in Paris from 1900 to 1940, this book of criticism offers a "revisionary account of certain exemplary writers from a specific and theoretical perspective." The perspective is the relationship between place and identity in the works of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, and, in the final and longest chapter, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Djuna Barnes. In the opening chapter, Kennedy summarizes the major theories of place and exile, reviews 19th-century exile in Paris, and articulates his "poetics of exile." We are "creatures of place" and derive "our most basic sense of self" from our relations to place. Exile "discloses an alternative self," "makes literal one's existential displacement," and offers "opportunity for metamorphosis," "conditions for writing," and "heightened consciousness of language." This valuable first chapter uses numerous writers, including Baudelaire, Henry James, Ana"is Nin, E.E. Cummings, and Strindberg and makes various critical theories accessible to the general reader. The remaining chapters offer a fresh approach to the works of five very familiar American writers. Scholarly notes offer the only bibliography. Undergraduate and up. -- N. R. Fitch, University of Southern California" http://www.cro2.org/default.aspx?page=reviewdisplay&pid=1897534 |
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| Item Description: | Maps appear on end-pages Maps on lining papers This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | 269 p xvi, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm xvi, 269 p. : ill. ; 25 cm xvi, 269 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm xvi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm xvi, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm xvi, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-262) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262) and index Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0300057474 (alk. paper) 0300057474 0300061021 (pbk) 9780300057478 (alk. paper) 9780300057478 |