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Ideas Crossing the Atlantic. Theories, Normative Conceptions, and Cultural Images

Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 896. Band

Ideas Crossing the Atlantic. Theories, Normative Conceptions, and Cultural Images

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Ideas Crossing the Atlantic

Preliminaries

1

Table of Contents

5

Acknowledgements

9

WALDEMAR ZACHARASIEWICZ ORCID, CHRISTOPH IRMSCHER ORCID

Introduction

11

KASIA BODDY

Henryk Sienkiewicz and the Great American Novel

19

DAVID STAINES

Frederick Philip Grove: An Internationalist in Early Literary Canada

39

ROBERT H. BRINKMEYER JR.

Europe as Seen through the Lens of the U.S. South: Booker T. Washington’s The Man Farthest Down

49

ROSELLA MAMOLI ZORZI

Hemingway between American Myths and European Reality

61

INEKE BOCKTING

American Ideas about Charity, Sacrifice, and the Nursing Profession during The Great War: Autobiographical Writings of Nurses Serving at the Front

79

GUDRUN M. GRABHER

“The Luck Is on Our Nose”: Ideas of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Crossing the Atlantic

93

JOSEPH KUHN

The Reluctant Aeneas: Virgil and Empire in Faulkner and Tate

107

WILLIAM V. DAVIS

“Each of Us Beholds Himself in You”: Reading Wallace Stevens and George Santayana

123

WALDEMAR ZACHARASIEWICZ ORCID

Thornton Wilder’s European Sojourns, Literary Contacts, and His Role as a Transatlantic Mediator

141

LUDWIG NAGL

“Traveling Ideas” - American Pragmatism and European Philosophical Discourse: Aspects of a Stimulating Interaction

159

MANFRED PRISCHING

The Interpretive Approach Crossing the Atlantic

177

JÖRG TÜRSCHMANN

Jean-Paul Sartre in the International Context of the Post-War Period and the Reception of Existentialism in the USA

191

SOPHIE LOIDOLT

Crossing the Atlantic: American Inspirations for Hannah Arendt’s Concept of the Political

207

STEVEN BURNS

Wittgenstein Goes West

225

TIBOR FRANK

Denazification in Germany and the Rockefeller Foundation

241

CHRISTOPH IRMSCHER ORCID

Daniel Aaron’s Atlantic Crossings

263

MARCEL ARBEIT

Before the Fall: Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White’s 1938 Visit to Czechoslovakia

281

IGOR MAVER

The Political and Cultural Transfer of Ideas by Way of American Drama to Slovenian Theater and Literary Criticism Immediately after World War Two

295

WYNFRID KRIEGLEDER

The Productive Reception of the American Hard-Boiled Detective Novel in Post-1945 Austrian Literature

309

CONSTANTE GONZÁLEZ GROBA

European Existentialism Becomes an Impetus for Change in the American South: Carson McCullers's Clock without Hands

325

MARTIN LÖSCHNIGG

Reappraising Diversity: Canadian Multicultural Literature as World Literature in English

343

BARBARA LESÁK

Frederick Kiesler’s Visions and Ideas in Europe and the USA

361

MARTIN EYBL

Heinrich Schenker’s Theory of Tonal Music in the American Academia

375

KARL JOHNS

Austrian Art-Historical Method in the United States: Meyer Schapiro and Emil Kaufmann

385

CORNELIA SZABÓ-KNOTIK, JACQUELINE VANSANT

Moving Images, Changing Perspectives: A Transatlantic Interdisciplinary Look at Billy Wilder’s The Emperor Waltz (1948)

413

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

427

INDEX

437