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100 1 $aHamsun, Knut,$d1859-1952.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089334
245 10 $aKnut Hamsun remembers America :$bessays and stories, 1885-1949 /$ctranslated and edited by Richard Nelson Current.
260 $aColumbia, Mo. :$bUniversity of Missouri Press,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $aix, 155 pages :$bmap ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 151-155).
505 00 $tIntroduction: Hamsun's America --$tCritical Reporting (1885-1888) --$tThe American Character --$tNew York City --$tYellow Thunder's Camp --$tMark Twain --$tA Bonanza Farm --$tRobert Ingersoll --$tMemory and Fantasy (1897-1905) --$tTerror --$tOn the Prairie --$tZachaeus --$tVagabond Days --$tA Woman's Victory --$tMellow Reminiscence (1928, 1949) --$tFestina Lente --$tMy First Time Abroad.
520 1 $a"Knut Hamsun Remembers America is a collection of thirteen essays and stories based largely on Hamsun's experiences during the four years he spent in the United States when he was a young man. Most of these pieces have never been published before in an English translation, and none are readily available.".
520 8 $a"Hamsun's feelings about America and American ways were complex. For the most part, they were more negative than positive, and they found expression in many of his writings - directly in his reminiscences and indirectly in his fiction. In On the Cultural Life of Modern America, his first major book, he portrayed the United States as a land of gross and greedy materialism, populated by illiterates who were utterly lacking in artistic originality or refinement.
520 8 $aAlthough the pieces in this collection are not all anti-American, most of them emphasize the strangeness and unpleasantness, as the author saw it, of life in what he called Yankeeland.".
520 8 $a"The pieces in this collection provide variations on a theme that runs through much of American history - European criticism of American ways. They give vivid, at times distorted, pictures of life as it was in the United States. They tell us something about the development of the worldview of a man who became a great writer, only to jeopardize his reputation by defending the Nazi oppressors of his own people.
520 8 $aKnut Hamsun Remembers America will appeal to anyone interested in the history of American civilization or, more specifically, in the history of anti-Americanism."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aHamsun, Knut,$d1859-1952$xTravel$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xCivilization.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139934
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