McFarland Red Vienna, White Socialism, and the Blues

Ann Tizia Leitich's America
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78204-635-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 168, 222 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Reveals Ann Tizia Leitich, American correspondent for Austrian newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s, as an important cultural mediator between the two countries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McFarland, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Amerika in Wien
Ancient People on New Ground: European Culture Meets American Civilization
New Movies and Neue Menschen: From Red Vienna to "Anatol on the Missouri"
Stefan Zweig's "Giant Wave of Uniformity": Colonization, Class, and the Polemics of American Mass Culture
Babbitt's Wives and Lovers: White Socialism, Gender, and the Poetry of the Machine
Hymns to Chicago: Progress, Myth, and the Music of the Metropolis
The Danube Blues: From American Mass Culture to Austrian Culture for the Masses
Epilogue: Delightful Facts and Convenient Fictions; Reconsidering Ann Tizia Leitich's Austria in the Context of Her American Writings
Chronology
Ann Tizia Leitich: A Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

McFarland Rob:
Rob McFarland is Professor of German Literature, Film and Culture at Brigham Young University.