Literature & the urban experience : essays on the city and literature / edited by Michael C. Jaye and Ann Chalmers Watts.

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Literature & the urban experience : essays on the city and literature / edited by Michael C. Jaye and Ann Chalmers Watts.

Publication:

Description:

xv, 256 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Based on the papers presented at the Conference on Literature and the Urban Experience, held at Rutgers University, Newark, in April 1980.
Includes bibliographical references.
Modern poetry is prose (but it is saying plenty) / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Imaginary cities : America / Joyce Carol Oates -- City limits, village values : Concepts of the neighborhood in Black fiction / Toni Morrison -- Poetry and the modern city / Stephen Spender -- The poet and the city : Robert Lowell / Helen Vendler -- The puzzle of anti-urbanism in classic American literature / Leo Marx -- New York from Melville to Mailer / Alfred Kazin -- Cities of mind, urban words : the dematerialization of metropolis in contemporary American fiction / Ihab Hassan -- Mythicizing the city / Leslie Fiedler -- Theater and cities / Richard Eder -- The language of the streets / James Baldwin -- Black literature and the Afro-American nation : the urban voice / Amiri Baraka -- Culture confrontation in urban America : a writer's beginnings / Chaim Potok -- A double life : the fate of the urban ethnic / Jerre Mangione -- The city and I / Pedro Juan Soto -- Living with change / David Ignatow -- The city as battleground : the novelist as combatant / Marge Piercy -- The child's perception of the city / Bruno Bettelheim -- Borrowing and lending : the young reader and the library / Joan N. Burstyn -- Literature for youth : the city as heaven and /or hell / M. Jerry Weiss -- A people's paper for the inner city / John Holt.

ISBN:

0813509297
9780813509297
0813509300 (pbk.)
9780813509303 (pbk.)

Subject:

American literature History and criticism Congresses.
City and town life in literature Congresses.
Cities and towns in literature Congresses.
Literature and society Congresses.
Littérature américaine Histoire et critique Congrès.
Villes dans la littérature Congrès.
Littérature et société Congrès.
Vie urbaine dans la littérature Congrès.
American literature
Cities and towns in literature
City and town life in literature
Literature and society
Steden.
Literatuur.
Gedichten.
Verenigde Staten.
Literatura E Sociedade.
Literatura Norte Americana (Historia E Critica)
Littérature américaine Histoire et critique.
Vie urbaine Dans la littérature.
Villes Dans la littérature.

Form/genre:

Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Jaye, Michael C., 1941-
Watts, Ann Chalmers.
Conference on Literature and the Urban Experience (1980 : Rutgers University, Newark)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 15797
Call No.: 10217; ID:87-B4732
Status: Available

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