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Narratives of Encounters in the North Atlantic Triangle

Narratives of Encounters in the North Atlantic Triangle

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-7832-3
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-7882-8
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Preliminaries

1

Table of Contents

3

Acknowledgements

7

Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, David Staines

Introduction

9

Birgit Däwes

“My first business will be to make observation of things”: First Nations Navigators and North Atlantic Triangulations

19

Heinz Antor

When Europe Meets the North American West: Intercultural Encounters in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Last Crossing (2002)

41

Wynfrid Kriegleder

Three Very Different Narratives of America: Charles Sealsfield – Armand Strubberg – Heinrich Boernstein

57

Charles H. Adams

An “Opaline” Mind: The Cosmopolitan Vision of John La Farge

71

Carmen Birkle

Capitals of Medicine: North American Medical Women and Their Encounters with Europe (1850s-1930s)

85

Franz X. Lackner

Exploring Vienna between the two World Wars – Doctors of the American Medical Association and their families

107

Waldemar Zacharasiewicz

Inspiration at the Crossroads: North American Visitors on the Banks of the Danube in the 1920s and 1930s

127

Doris Corradini

Between Scholarship and Politics: Josef Redlich and the United States of America

145

Martin Löschnigg

An Englishman Abroad: Images of the United States and Canada in Rupert Brooke’s Letters from America

159

Manfred Prisching

European Social Scientists and Their Travelogues: Perceiving the American Dream

171

Hans Bak

French Connection Malcolm Cowley: Mediator and Critic of French Literature

187

Christoph Irmscher

“I Regret America”: Max Eastman Meets Sigmund Freud

211

Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.

A Region and a Nation at Risk: Lillian Hellman and European Fascism

235

Tim Youngs

William O. Field’s Journey to the Margins of Europe

245

Don Sparling

Ernest Thompson Seton: Bringing the Wilderness to Central Europe

259

David Staines

Mavis Gallant and Mordecai Richler: Abroad and at Home

275

Sherrill Grace

“Uncreative Forgetting”: Memory Discourse and the Case of Timothy Findley

291

Kasia Boddy

Weissnix: Lore Segal and Her First American

309

Peter G. Klaus

Edmond de Nevers et Marguerite Andersen: De Québec à Berlin et de Berlin au Canada. Un journaliste et écrivain québécois à Berlin à la fin du XIXe siècle et une écrivaine berlinoise à Toronto de nos jours

325

Jörg Türschmann

Les figures de l’absence : migration et maternité dans L’Empreinte de l’ange (1998) et Reflets dans un oeil d’homme (2012) de Nancy Huston

335

Fritz Peter Kirsch

À la recherche du Minotaure Les romanciers québécois devant les mystères de l’Europe centrale

355

Ursula Mathis-Moser

« Des illustres invisibles » À propos de la réception du Québec et de ses auteurs dans les médias imprimés germanophones (1960-2013)

363

Aritha van Herk

A Bridge to Trieste

383

List of Contributors

395

Index

405