Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village : conversing with the moderns, 1915-1931 / by Selzer, Jack

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Overview: a Flaubert in Greenwich Village -- Burke among others: the early poetry -- Thomas Mann, the little magazines, and Burke's short fiction -- At the dial -- And up against Dada -- Counter-statement as counter statement -- Conclusion: conversing with modernism in towards a better life.…”
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Always magic in the air : the bomp and brilliance of the Brill Building era / by Emerson, Ken, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…-- Partners in chutzpah -- The young lovers -- Putting the bomp in the bomp, bomp, bomp -- In the garden of Aldon -- "It was just Jewish Latin" -- Baby talk -- At work in the Elvis atelier -- The magician and the mensch -- Selling out -- Seesaw -- Double trouble -- Golden girls -- "Somethin' died" -- Swinging London -- From the Monkees to Thomas Mann.…”

"Escape to life" : German intellectuals in New York: a compendium on exile after 1933. by Goebel, Eckart

Table of Contents: “…Ethics of Imagination: On Erika Mann's Works in ExileYou Can't Go Home Again: Exiles in Klaus Mann's The Volcano; Voyage with Don Quixote: Thomas Mann between European Culture and American Politics; The Returns of Herbert Marcuse; Exile is a Flop: Soma Morgenstern over Central Park; Stranger in Paradise: Erwin Panofsky's Expulsion to the Academic Parnassus; The Flight Into Orgonomy: Wilhelm Reich in New York; Reinventing the Canonical: The Radical Thinking of Jacob Taubes; "Almost American:" Ernst Toller Abroad; "Inter, but not national:" Vilém Flusser and the Technologies of Exile.…”
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