Format:
214 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781571139368
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1571139362
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
"After the First World War, Vienna was overrun by jazz, Hollywood movies, and Fordism; its citizens were both fascinated and appalled by the waves of American ideas and products. To make sense of things, readers turned to Ann Tizia Leitich, New York-based correspondent for Vienna's Neue Freie Presse. Chronicling Leitich's rise as a journalist, cultural historian, and novelist and providing close readings of her writings about America, this book reveals Leitich as an important cultural mediator between Austria and America"--Provided by publisher
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-207) and index
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Introduction: Amerika in WienAncient 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.
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
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Österreich
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Kulturvergleich
Author information:
McFarland, Rob 1968-
