Anti-Americanism in European literature

Title: Anti-Americanism in European literature
Creator: Gulddal, Jesper
Relation: Studies in European Culture and History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Resource Type: book
Date: 2011
Description: This book is not a polemical work. It is not written in defense of the United States, nor in an attempt to somehow pour scorn on Europe or European culture. If it springs from any basic sentiment, it is simply one of exasperation with the simple-minded prejudices against the American "other" in which European authors have reveled far too often over the past two centuries. In the words of Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, writing in 1930: "The mass of puerile judgments made on the United States in Europe is one of the most perturbing aspects of European thinking, especially when even the most cultured people are prone to them. It is a particular instance of the disproportion between the complexity of present-day problems and the capacity of our minds to deal with them."
Subject: anti-Americanism; European literature; European culture
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1036613
Identifier: uon:13326
Identifier: ISBN:9780230120820
Language: eng

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