A Coney Island Reader : Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion / John Parascandola, Louis Parascandola.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parascandola, John, 1941- editor.

Parascandola, Louis J., 1952- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amusement parks--New York (State)--Coney Island--History.

Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)--Literary collections.

Coney Island (New York, N.Y.).

Local Subjects:

Amusement parks--New York (State)--Coney Island--History.

Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)--Literary collections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe--this anthology is the first to focus on the unique history and transporting experience of a beloved fixture of the New York City landscape.Moody, mystical, and enchanting, Coney Island has thrilled newcomers and soothed native New Yorkers for decades. With its fantasy entertainments, renowned beach foods, world-class boardwalk, and expansive beach, it provides a welcome respite from the city's dense neighborhoods, unrelenting traffic, and somber grid. Coney Island has long offered a kaleidoscopic panorama of people, places, and events, creating, as Lawrence Ferlinghetti once wrote, "a Coney Island of the mind." This anthology captures the highs and lows of that sensation, with works that imagine Coney Island as a restful resort, a playground for the masses, and a symbol of America's democratic spirit, as well as a Sodom by the sea, a garish display of capitalist excess, and a paradigm of urban decay. As complex as the city of which it is a part, Coney Island engenders limitless perspectives, a composite inspiring everyone who encounters it to sing its electric song.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword / Baker, Kevin

Acknowledgments

A Note on the text

Selected chronology of coney island

Introduction

The Beginnings Through 1896

[Clam-Bake At Coney Island] / Whitman, Walt

Acconey Island / Shanly, Charles Dawson

To Coney Island / Bishop, William Henry

Coney Island / Martí, José

Coney Island'S Failing Days / Crane, Stephen

Coney Island / Ralph, Julian

The Era Of The Three Great Amusement Parks, 1897-1911

Marvelous Coney Island / Carryl, Guy Wetmore

Human Need Of Coney Island / Gallienne, Richard Le

Boredom / Gorky, Maxim

The Master Showman of Coney Island / Lyon, Peter

Amusing the Million / Thompson, Frederic

The way of the girl / Israels, Belle Lindner

Why Is Coney? / Kauffman, Reginald Wright

The Coney Island Excursion / Peiss, Kathy

Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand other Islands / Holley, Marietta

Coney Island / Teasdale, Sara

The Greater Coney / Henry, O.

Dreamland / Baker, Kevin

In Dreams begin Responsibilities / Schwartz, Delmore

Sunday / Butler, Robert Olen

Ruins Help Draw 350,000 To Coney

The Nickel Empire: Coney In Transition 1912-1948

The Tingling, Tangling Tango as 'Tis Tripped at Coney Isle / Barnes, Djuna

New Cosmopolis / Huneker, James

Human Nature with the Brakes Off-Or: Why the Schoolma'Am Walked into the sea / Tilyou, Edward F.

Coney / Cautela, Giuseppe

Coney Island / Cummings, E. E.

Into the Night Life / Miller, Henry

Now and then / Heller, Joseph

The Electric Michelangelo / Hall, Sarah

Attachment to Letter to Mayor Fiorello Laguardia / Moses, Robert

To Heaven by Subway

Coney / Ducovny, Amram

Stranger At Coney Island

The Years of Decline and the Hope of Rebirth 1949 to the Present

A Coney Island of the Mind / Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

The Warriors / Yurick, Sol

Coney Island in November / Johnson, Josephine W.

My son the Murderer / Malamud, Bernard

Mayor Blasts ta Brass on Coney Island Debacle / Todd, George

Kwan'S Coney Island / Hoagland, Edward

Coney Island 1969 / Torres, Edwin

Coney Island / Whitehead, Colson

A Coney island of the mind

City Planning Begins Public Review on Rezoning of Coney Island

Comments on the Revised Draft Scope of Analysis for Coney Island Rezoning Project

Confessions of a Coney Island Sideshow Performer / Thomas, Donald

A Coney Island of the Mind / McHugh, Maureen F.

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231538190

0231538197

OCLC:

979587489