{"title":"Modernist Studies","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"brassai-book-marja-warehime-9780807119433","title":"Brassai","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49789096526097,"sku":"GOR013785070","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807119431.jpg?v=1751297062"},{"product_id":"american-expatriate-writing-and-the-paris-moment-book-donald-pizer-9780807122204","title":"American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment","description":"Montparnasse and its café life, the shabby working-class area of the place de la Contrescarpe and the Pantheon, the small restaurants and cafés along the Seine, and the Right Bank world of the well-to-do . . . for American writers self-exiled to Paris during the 1920s and 1930s, the French capital represented what their homeland could not: a milieu that, through the freedom of thought and action it permitted and the richness of life it offered, nurtured the full expression of the creative imagination. How these expatriates interpreted and gave modernist shape to the myth of \"\"the Paris moment\"\" in their writing is the altogether fresh focus of Donald Pizer's study of seven of their major works.  Pizer elucidates a striking difference between the genres of expatriate autobiography and fiction, and arranges his discussion accordingly. He first examines Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1934, all of which depict the emergence and triumph of the creative imagination within the Paris context. He then turns to Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, John Dos Passos' Nineteen-Nineteen, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, which dramatize the tragic potential in seeking a richness and intensity of creative expression within the city's setting. Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, a relatively late example of American expatriate writing, constitutes a synthesis of the two tendencies, Pizer shows.  Through careful readings of the texts, Pizer identifies both the common threads in the expatriates' response to the Paris moment and the distinctive expression each work gives to their shared experience. Most important, he addresses the neglected question of how the portrayal of the Paris scene helps shape a specific work's themes and form. He traces such experimental devices as fragmented or cubistic narrative forms, the dramatic representation of consciousness, and sexual explicitness, and explores the powerful and evocative tropes of mobility and feeding.  As Pizer demonstrates, Paris between the two world wars was for the American expatriates more than a geographical entity. It was a state of mind, an experience, that engendered the formal expression of a personal aesthetic. The engaging and significant interplay between artist, place, and innovative self-reflexive forms composes, Pizer maintains, the most distinctive contribution of expatriate writing to the literary movement called high modernism.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50031933915409,"sku":"CIN0807122203G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007744246033,"sku":"NIN9780807122204","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807122203.jpg?v=1750882573"},{"product_id":"napoleon-iii-and-his-regime-book-david-baguley-9780807126240","title":"Napoleon III and His Regime","description":"Referred to in his time as \"\"the Pretender\"\" and \"\"the sphinx of the Tuileries,\"\" Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, the nephew of Emperor Napoleon I of France and himself ruler of the Second Empire (1852-1870), so managed the manufacture of his public image and the masking of his private self that he is, ultimately, unknowable to this day. From the mysterious circumstances of his conception in 1807 to the strange events of his downfall in 1870 and death in 1873, he lived, loved, and reigned in an extraordinary aura of myth and fantasy under the shadow of his more famous uncle.   Taking a highly innovative approach to this intriguing historical figure, David Baguley entertains sources in a mélange of media and forms, pictures, performances, spectacles, rituals, music, fiction, poems, plays, architecture, fashion, as well as Louis Napoléon's own writings, to explore how the ruler was represented, invented, and interpreted by detractors and defenders alike. The dynamic process by which the legend of Napoleon III was elaborately fabricated and then vigorously dismantled unfolds under Baguley's hand not chronologically but by generic categories, reflecting the author's underlying conviction that history and literary depictments are not as incompatible as is often assumed.   Baguley examines works by, among many others, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Émile Zola, Honoré Daumier, Jacques Offenbach, Gustave Flaubert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning that range from history and biography to romanticized versions of the Emperor's feats to parody, caricature, and satire. With its conspiratorial origins, its rising and dramatically falling action, its schemes, scandals, and tragic denouement, the Second Empire appears designed to inspire writers and artists. Napoleon III, Baguley observes, could well have been the central character, or temperament, in a naturalist novel.  While most historians consider Louis Napoléon's coup d'état of December 1851 to be his boldest endeavor, Baguley shows in this expansive and eloquent work that his most extravagant venture was to found a second Napoleonic empire, and he illustrates not only the power of the name and the image but also the precariousness of the Emperor's reliance upon them. For Napoleon III, dissimulation was his natural state; opportunist or utopian reformer, or something in between, he must remain one of history's most elusive and controversial figures, ever resisting final assessment.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51416381686033,"sku":"CIN0807126241G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52327355482385,"sku":"NGR9780807126240","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807126241.jpg?v=1762596081"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/modernist-studies-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}