European writers in exile

Titel: European writers in exile / edited by Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein
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Veröffentlicht: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
Umfang: xxii, 282 Seiten
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9781498560238 ; 9781498560245
  • Epigraph
  • p. vii
  • Acknowledgments
  • p. ix
  • Preface: On the Experience of Exile
  • p. xi
  • 1
  • Social Exile in Nineteenth-Century England
  • p. 1
  • 2
  • Zola's English Exile: The Private Pages of a Public Author
  • p. 17
  • 3
  • "All Europe contributed": Joseph Conrad's Experience and Representation of Exile
  • p. 31
  • 4
  • Thomas Mann-An American? From Fascination to Disillusionment: The Black Swan as a Literary Account of Mann's Exile Experiences
  • p. 49
  • 5
  • James Joyce, Dubliners, and Exile: Exile by Any Other Name ...
  • p. 63
  • 6
  • Franz Kafka's Exile of the Mind
  • p. 83
  • 7
  • Professor Pnin in Exile: Nabokov and the Liminal Experience of the Postwar Émigré Academic
  • p. 105
  • 8
  • Specks in the City: Shklovsky and Nabokov in Berlin
  • p. 121
  • 9
  • Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss: The Tradition of Political Thought and the Modern Age
  • p. 135
  • 10
  • Arthur Koestler's Fictional Self-Reflections of Exile
  • p. 155
  • 11
  • In Search of the Doppelganger: Homecoming from Exile
  • p. 171
  • 12
  • Milan Kundera, the Novel, and the Problem of History
  • p. 187
  • 13
  • Norman Manea's Exile between Predicament and Redemption
  • p. 207
  • 14
  • Lessons from Exile: Eva Hoffman as Theoretician and Practitioner of Otherness
  • p. 221
  • 15
  • "Receive me kindly, Stranger that I Am": W. G. Sebald's Existential Exile
  • p. 233
  • 16
  • Transnational Modes of Exile in Caryl Phillips's Narratives: Or, What It Feels Like to Be Both of and Not of
  • p. 251
  • Index
  • p. 267
  • About the Editors and Contributors
  • p. 277