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Author : Thomas De Witt Talmage
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book Night Scenes of City Life ... written by Thomas De Witt Talmage and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book Moral Aspects of City Life written by Edwin Hubbell Chapin and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Brevda
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611480434
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book Signs of the Signs written by William Brevda and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of signs in American literature and culture. It is mainly about electric signs, but also deals with non-electric signs and related phenomena, such as movie sets. The 'sign' is considered in both the architectural and semiotic senses of the word. It is argued that the drama and spectacle of the electric sign called attention to the semiotic implications of the 'sign.' In fiction, poetry, and commentary, the electric SIGN became a 'sign' of manifold meanings that this book explores: a sign of the city, a sign of America, a sign of the twentieth century, a sign of modernism, a sign of postmodernism, a sign of noir, a sign of naturalism, a sign of the beats, a sign of signs systems (the Bible to Broadway), a sign of tropes (the Great White way to the neon jungle), a sign of the writers themselves, a sign of the sign itself. If Moby Dick is the great American novel, then it is also the great American novel about signs, as the prologue maintains. The chapters that follow demonstrate that the sign is indeed a 'sign' of American literature. After the electric sign was invented, it influenced Stephen Crane to become a nightlight impressionist and Theodore Dreiser to make the 'fire sign' his metaphor for the city. An actual Broadway sign might have inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In Manhattan Transfer and U.S.A., John Dos Passos portrayed America as just a spectacular sign. William Faulkner's electric signs are full of sound and fury signifying modernity. The Last Tycoon was a sign of Fitzgerald's decline. The signs of noir can be traced to Poe's 'The Man of the Crowd.' Absence flickers in the neons of Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. The death of God haunts the neon wilderness of Nelson Algren. Hitler's 'empire' was an non-intentional parody of Nathanael West's California. The beats reinvented Times Square in their own image. Jack Kerouac's search for the center of Saturday night was a quest for transcendence. This book will interest readers who want to learn more about the city, the history of advertising, electric lighting, nightlife, architecture, and semiotics. In contrast to other cultural studies, however, Signs of the Signs is primarily a work of literary criticism. Lovers of literary light will appreciate this book the most.
Author : Stephen Crane
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1460401298
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Maggie: A Girl of the Streets written by Stephen Crane and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2006-09-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1893, when Stephen Crane was only twenty-one years old, Maggie is the harrowing tale of a young woman’s fall into prostitution and destitution in New York City's notorious Bowery slum. In dazzlingly vivid prose and with a sexual candour remarkable for his day, Crane depicts an urban sub-culture awash with alcohol and patrolled by the swaggering gangland "tough." Presented here with its companion piece George’s Mother and a selection of Crane’s other Bowery stories, this edition of Maggie includes a detailed introduction that places the novel in its social, cultural, and literary contexts. The appendices provide an unrivalled range of documentary sources covering such topics as religious and civic reform writing, slum fiction, the "new journalism," and literary realism and naturalism. An up-to-date bibliography of scholarly work on Crane is also included.
Author : George Peabody Library
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Total Pages : 1226 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ... written by George Peabody Library and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Rechy
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 178283785X
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book City of Night written by John Rechy and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold and inventive in style, City of Night is the groundbreaking 1960s novel about male prostitution. Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling 'youngman' and his search for self-knowledge among the other denizens of his neon-lit world. As the narrator moves from Texas to Times Square and then on to the French Quarter of New Orleans, Rechy delivers a portrait of the edges of America that has lost none of its power. On his travels, the nameless narrator meets a collection of unforgettable characters, from vice cops to guilt-ridden married men eaten up by desire, to Lance O'Hara, once Hollywood's biggest star. Rechy describes this world with candour and understanding in a prose that is highly personal and vividly descriptive.
Author : Gustav Hermansen
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888640727
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ostia: Aspects of Roman City Life written by Gustav Hermansen and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1981 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gustav Hermansen provides a basis for constructive debate on the social and economic life of the Roman city of Ostia. Ostia unveils ancient social history, architecture, city planning, and community life, and is complete with extensive floor plans, photographs, and line drawings.
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Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeanette Winterson
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802161529
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book Night Side of the River written by Jeanette Winterson and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” (New York Times), The Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky. In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongside hair-raising fictions. Lifting the veil between the living and the dead, Winterson spirits us away to a haunted estate that ensnares a nomadic young couple in its own dark past, a staged immersive ghost tour gone awry, a West Village séance that threatens the bounds between AI and reality, and a vacation home in the metaverse where a widow visits an improved version of her deceased husband. Gloriously gothic and unnervingly contemporary, Winterson examines grief, revenge, and the myriad ways in which technology can disrupt the boundary between life and death.
Author : Kevin R. McNamara
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ISBN 13 : 1108841961
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book The City in American Literature and Culture written by Kevin R. McNamara and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.
