Inside Greenwich Village

Inside Greenwich Village
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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 1558495029
ISBN-13 : 9781558495029
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Inside Greenwich Village by : Gerald W. McFarland

A vibrant portrait of a celebrated urban enclave at the turn of the twentieth century.

The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines

The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 1112
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ISBN-10 : 9780199545810
ISBN-13 : 0199545812
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines by : Peter Brooker

This volume contains 44 original essays on the role of periodicals in the United States and Canada. Over 120 magazines are discussed by expert contributors, completely reshaping our understanding of the construction and emergence of modernism.

Visionary Company

Visionary Company
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 349
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ISBN-10 : 9781474481540
ISBN-13 : 147448154X
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Visionary Company by : Francesca Bratton

This book examines the poetry of Hart Crane and his circle within transnational modernist periodical culture. It reappraises Crane's poetry and reception and introduces several lost works by the poet, including critical prose, reviews and 'Nopal', a poem written in Mexico. Through its exploration of Crane's close engagement with periodical culture, it provides a rich and detailed panorama of twentieth-century literary and artistic communities. In particular, this monograph offers a vivid portrait of forgotten periodicals and their artistic communities, examines the periodical contexts in which modernist poetry fused material and aesthetic experimentation and explores Crane's important and neglected influence on modern and contemporary poetry.

The Encyclopedia of New York City

The Encyclopedia of New York City
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 4282
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ISBN-10 : 9780300182576
ISBN-13 : 0300182570
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis The Encyclopedia of New York City by : Kenneth T. Jackson

Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its first printing before it was officially published. But much has changed since the volume first appeared in 1995: the World Trade Center no longer dominates the skyline, a billionaire businessman has become an unlikely three-term mayor, and urban regeneration—Chelsea Piers, the High Line, DUMBO, Williamsburg, the South Bronx, the Lower East Side—has become commonplace. To reflect such innovation and change, this definitive, one-volume resource on the city has been completely revised and expanded. The revised edition includes 800 new entries that help complete the story of New York: from Air Train to E-ZPass, from September 11 to public order. The new material includes broader coverage of subject areas previously underserved as well as new maps and illustrations. Virtually all existing entries—spanning architecture, politics, business, sports, the arts, and more—have been updated to reflect the impact of the past two decades. The more than 5,000 alphabetical entries and 700 illustrations of the second edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City convey the richness and diversity of its subject in great breadth and detail, and will continue to serve as an indispensable tool for everyone who has even a passing interest in the American metropolis.

Decadent Culture in the United States

Decadent Culture in the United States
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9780791479179
ISBN-13 : 079147917X
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Decadent Culture in the United States by : David Weir

Decadent Culture in the United States traces the development of the decadent movement in America from its beginnings in the 1890s to its brief revival in the 1920s. During the fin de siècle, many Americans felt the nation had entered a period of decline since the frontier had ended and the country's "manifest destiny" seemed to be fulfilled. Decadence—the cultural response to national decline and individual degeneracy so familiar in nineteenth-century Europe—was thus taken up by groups of artists and writers in major American cities such as New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Noting that the capitalist, commercial context of America provided possibilities for the entrance of decadence into popular culture to a degree that simply did not occur in Europe, David Weir argues that American-style decadence was driven by a dual impulse: away from popular culture for ideological reasons, yet toward popular culture for economic reasons. By going against the grain of dominant social and cultural trends, American writers produced a native variant of Continental Decadence that eventually dissipated "upward" into the rising leisure class and "downward" into popular, commercial culture.

Careering Through the Village

Careering Through the Village
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 406
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105023738755
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Careering Through the Village by : Gretchen Brooks Anderson

New York History

New York History
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 514
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89059452235
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis New York History by : New York State Historical Association

ADE Bulletin

ADE Bulletin
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000125551394
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis ADE Bulletin by : Association of Departments of English

New York Dada, 1915-23

New York Dada, 1915-23
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Publisher : ABRAMS
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015026908742
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis New York Dada, 1915-23 by : Francis M. Naumann

Among the Americans were the photographer/painter/constructor Man Ray, the Precisionist painter and Fortune photographer Charles Sheeler, the Futurist Joseph Stella, and the Pennsylvania artists Charles Demuth and Morton Schamberg.