Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
226, 229
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Publishing | Sylvia Beach | SB
published her French translation of Walt Whitman
's 1856 speech on Ulysses S. Grant
, entitled The Eighteenth Presidency, through Adrienne Monnier
in an all-American issue of Le Navire d'argent. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 226, 229 |
Textual Features | Sylvia Beach | Reviewing the collection, Kathryn Hughes
found SB
's usual style characterised by a kind of polite chirpiness, with even faintly slangy expressions—jazzed up, my stars, corking—marked by scare quotes, and Beach's... |
Textual Production | Sylvia Beach | In 1937, SB
and Adrienne Monnier
translated Bryher
's Paris 1900. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 380 Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton. 380 |
Textual Production | Bryher | Bryher
's Paris 1900, a booklet on her childhood visit to the World Exhibition in that city that year, was published. Drafted in English, it was translated into French and distributed by Sylvia Beach |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sylvia Beach | She writes in her introduction, c'est une gageure de faire tenir dix ans de vie littéraire sur quatre murs Beach, Sylvia, editor. “Introduction”. Les Années vingt: les écrivains Américains a Paris et leurs amis, Centre Culturel Américain, pp. 11-13. 11 |
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