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Literature & the urban experience : essays on the city and literature / edited by Michael C. Jaye and Ann Chalmers Watts.
LIBRA - Rare PS169.C57 L5 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Conference on Literature and the Urban Experience (1980 : Rutgers University, Newark)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism--Congresses.
- American literature.
- Cities and towns in literature--Congresses.
- Cities and towns in literature.
- Literature and society--Congresses.
- Literature and society.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 256 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Literature and the urban experience
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [1981]
- Contents:
- Modern poetry ir 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 / Lee 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 urbam 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 has heaven and/or hell / M. Jerry Weiss
- A People's Paper for the Inner City / John Holt.
- Notes:
- Based on the papers presented at the Conference on Literature and the Urban Experience, held at Rutgers University, Newark, on April 17-19, 1980.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0813509297 :
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