Rive gauche : : Paris as a site of avant-garde art and cultural exchange in the 1920s / / edited by Elke Mettinger, Margarete Rubik and Jörge Türschmann.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 144
• TeilnehmendeR: Mettinger-Schartmann, Elke.; Rubik, Mararete.; Türschmann, Jörg.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 144.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (327 pages)

From the late 19th century onwards Paris had been a congenial locus for bohemian life. By 1920 Montparnasse had superseded Montmartre as the intellectual and artistic heart of the city, inaugurating a decade of unequaled creative achievement and innovative self-performance. These were the years of t...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction / Elke Mettinger , Margarete Rubik and Jörg Türschmann
• Judgements of Paris and Falling Troy – The French Metropolis as a Site of Cultural Archaeology in James Joyce’s Ulysses and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited” / Dieter Fuchs
• Midwives to Modernism: Three Women’s Contributions to the Making of the Avant-Garde / Elke Mettinger
• Jean Rhys’s Vision of the Left Bank / Margarete Rubik
• “La vie toute faite des morceaux”: Intermediality and Impressionism in Jean Rhys’s Quartet / Eva Müller-Zettelmann and Rudolf Weiss
• The Surrealist Artist is Strolling around with the Little Puppy-Dog Sigmund Freud at his Heels: Perceptions of Space, the Subconscious and Gender Codifications in 1920's Paris / Elke Frietsch
• Picturing the Metropolis: Paris in the Eye of the Camera / Petra Löffler
• Topography of a City of Differences: René Crevel’s La Mort difficile (1926) / Birgit Wagner
• The Pull of the Metropolis: The Années folles from a Belgian Perspective, or the Paris of Maigret / Sylvia Schreiber
• “Black Paris” in the 1920's and René Maran’s Novel Batouala / Manuel Chemineau
• Americans in Paris: Huidobro. Girondo. Tarsiwald. Vallejo / Friedrich Frosch
• The Plague in Paris or Burning Cities: Bruno Jasieński versus Paul Morand / Martina Stemberger
• Claire Goll: Eine Deutsche in Paris (Une Allemande à Paris) / Jörg Türschmann
• Studies in buitenkant – Studies in Surroundings: Edgar Du Perron and the Modernists / Herbert Van Uffelen
• “It is evil; it is beautiful; it is fascinating; it is bewildering”: Thomas Wolfe’s Paris of the 1920's / Bettina Thurner
• “At Last Lost in Paris”: A Canadian View on the Avant-Garde Paris of the 1920's / Astrid M. Fellner.