The twelve essays in this book - by scholars from the U.S., France, Germany, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic - offer new transnational perspectives in transatlantic historical, literary, and cultural studies. They explore the special role of American and European intellectuals as agents of transatlantic cultural transfer, and examine the mechanisms and instruments through which artists, writers and intellectuals communicated across oceans and national borders, in the half century between 1914 and 1964. Their focus is on transatlantic networks and the instruments of culture through which such networks become operative as sites of cross-cultural exchange, circulation and interaction: magazines, cafes, publishing houses, book fairs, agents, translators, and mediators - and last but not least, transatlantic personal friendships. Contending that the dynamics of transatlantic cultural transfer need to be understood as reciprocal and multi-directional, they also exemplify the shift within transatlantic intellectual history from a traditional concern with European-U.S. relations to a multidirectional, triangular exploration of cultural, political and intellectual relations between Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
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Format: Hardback
Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
Publication Date: 26 Nov 2019
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781527539747
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Hans Bak is Emeritus Professor of American Literature and American Studies at Radboud University the Netherlands. He is the author of Malcolm Cowley: The Formative Years (1993) and the editor of The Long Voyage: Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley 1915-1987 (2014); he is now writing a biography of Cowley. He has published widely on 20th-century American and Canadian fiction drama biography multiculturalism and the discipline of American studies. His research interests include contemporary American and Canadian literature (Native American and First Nations literatures) instruments of culture and the reception of North American literature and culture in Europe. Celine Mansanti is an Associate Professor at the University of Picardie-Jules Verne France. She works on the cultural history of the United States and its relationships with Europe especially in the periodicals of the first half of the 20th century. Her PhD on transition magazine was published in 2009 under the title La Revue transition (1927-1938) le modernisme historique en devenir. In 2011 she co-edited with Helene Aji and Benoit Tadie Revues modernistes revues engagees 1900-1939 while she also co-edited Early American Surrealisms (with Anne Reynes-Delobel 2017). She has devoted several studies to various American little magazines and to the modalities of the presence of modernism in big magazines and newspapers.