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

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

Work
Publication
Extent
xv, 256 pages
Note
Based on the papers presented at the Conference on Literature and the Urban Experience, held at Rutgers University, Newark, in April 1980
Contents
  • 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
  • Modern poetry is prose (but it is saying plenty)
  • 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
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • 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
  • Imaginary cities : America
  • Literature for youth : the city as heaven and /or hell
  • M. Jerry Weiss
  • A people's paper for the inner city
  • John Holt
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • City limits, village values : Concepts of the neighborhood in Black fiction
  • Toni Morrison
  • Poetry and the modern city
  • Stephen Spender
Isbn
9780813509297
Instance
Label
Literature & the urban experience : essays on the city and literature
Title
Literature & the urban experience
Title remainder
essays on the city and literature
Statement of responsibility
edited by Michael C. Jaye and Ann Chalmers Watts
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Cataloging source
DLC
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS169.C57
LC item number
L5
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1941-
  • 1980
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Jaye, Michael C.
  • Watts, Ann Chalmers
  • Conference on Literature and the Urban Experience
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • American literature
  • City and town life in literature
  • Cities and towns in literature
  • Literature and society
  • Littérature américaine
  • Villes dans la littérature
  • Littérature et société
  • Steden
  • Literatuur
  • Gedichten
  • Verenigde Staten
  • Literatura E Sociedade
  • Literatura Norte Americana (Historia E Critica)
  • Littérature américaine
  • Littérature et société
  • Vie urbaine
  • Villes
  • American literature
  • Cities and towns in literature
  • City and town life in literature
  • Literature and society
Label
Literature & the urban experience : essays on the city and literature, edited by Michael C. Jaye and Ann Chalmers Watts
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Based on the papers presented at the Conference on Literature and the Urban Experience, held at Rutgers University, Newark, in April 1980
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • 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
  • Modern poetry is prose (but it is saying plenty)
  • 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
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • 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
  • Imaginary cities : America
  • Literature for youth : the city as heaven and /or hell
  • M. Jerry Weiss
  • A people's paper for the inner city
  • John Holt
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • City limits, village values : Concepts of the neighborhood in Black fiction
  • Toni Morrison
  • Poetry and the modern city
  • Stephen Spender
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xv, 256 pages
Isbn
9780813509297
Lccn
81005857
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)07551429
  • (OCoLC)ocm07551429
Label
Literature & the urban experience : essays on the city and literature, edited by Michael C. Jaye and Ann Chalmers Watts
Publication
Note
Based on the papers presented at the Conference on Literature and the Urban Experience, held at Rutgers University, Newark, in April 1980
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • 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
  • Modern poetry is prose (but it is saying plenty)
  • 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
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • 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
  • Imaginary cities : America
  • Literature for youth : the city as heaven and /or hell
  • M. Jerry Weiss
  • A people's paper for the inner city
  • John Holt
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • City limits, village values : Concepts of the neighborhood in Black fiction
  • Toni Morrison
  • Poetry and the modern city
  • Stephen Spender
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xv, 256 pages
Isbn
9780813509297
Lccn
81005857
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)07551429
  • (OCoLC)ocm07551429

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