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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 627–629.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman . By Les Harrison. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. xxv, 272 pp. $42.50. From Broadway to Cleveland: A History of the Hanna Theatre . By John Vacha. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2007. xi...
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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 1 Photograph of the “Ice-Cream Sextet,” original Broadway production of Street Scene , Adelphi Theater, 1947. Courtesy of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, New York More
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2014
... in New York’s Broadway Temple has often been cited as evidence of his Jacksonian commitments and, by extension, of the political conservatism of his most famous dramatic roles. Close analysis of the speech and its treatment in the press, however, suggests that Forrest delivered his vision...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 443–472.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Figure 1 Photograph of the “Ice-Cream Sextet,” original Broadway production of Street Scene , Adelphi Theater, 1947. Courtesy of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, New York ...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 523–551.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Andriopoulos 2008 . 2 The short story was first published as “The Facts of M. Valdemar’s Case” in the American Whig Review (December 1845) and then as “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” in the Broadway Journal (December 1845). 1 “Sie war ein im Augenblicke des Sterbens, durch irgend eine...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 449–460.
Published: 01 June 2000
...- fiction by scholars of comparative, Anglo-American, and African American literature. José, Can You See? Latinos On and Off Broadway. By Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez. Madi- son: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 1999...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 115–121.
Published: 01 March 2023
... on Broadway in August 2021—the first play to open after more than a year of shuttered theaters due to COVID-19. It had already been widely celebrated, having premiered at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre in 2017; Spike Lee’s filmed version of that production was released on Amazon Prime the following year...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 217–219.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., the MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, and the MLA Prize for a first book. A descriptive list of all the awards and their deadlines is available from the office of Special Projects, Modern Language Associa- tion, 26 Broadway, Third Floor...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 435–448.
Published: 01 June 2005
... Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon, to frame her arguments, resituating Frost and his work in a transatlantic context. Zoe Akins: Broadway Playwright. By Alan Kreizenbeck. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2004. xv, 231 pp. $64.95. A long career is mapped from its difficult early years to eventual success...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 893–894.
Published: 01 December 2000
..., after the breakup, Awkward takes time to criticize Manning’s compact disk and book and to note that her Broadway biography expunges any mention of her collegiate days—and, correspondingly, of him. Brushing...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 894–895.
Published: 01 December 2000
... and book and to note that her Broadway biography expunges any mention of her collegiate days—and, correspondingly, of him. Brushing aside suggestions that he is experiencing unresolved feelings, Awk- ward...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 89–117.
Published: 01 March 2012
... 22, 1908: “Walked up Broadway. A beautiful day. Washington’s Birthday—and everyone seemed to be out. . . . Watched a moving picture photographer set up his camera. He waited and I did Film and the Seven Arts 93 also to see what he was after. Soon around...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 275–306.
Published: 01 June 2004
... functions as just such an image of endurance and commemoration, a text dispassion- ately recording all of modern experience. In Carl Sandburg’s bleak, powerful ‘‘Broadway’’ (1916), the lost dreams of passersby are pre- served in ‘‘the dust of your harsh and trampled stones 26 Maxwell Bodenheim’s...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 87–116.
Published: 01 March 2000
... that bears spe- cific relevance to ‘‘Bartleby’’ is the scandal that erupted in 1846–1847 over the Episcopal diocese’s management of its real estate. Trinity Church—situated on Broadway at the foot of Wall Street...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 691–694.
Published: 01 September 2001
... that are primarily translations will not be considered. To enter a book into the competition, send four copies and a let- ter identifying the work to the William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association, 26 Broadway, Third Floor, New York, New York 10004– 1789. Entries must be received by 1 May...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 450–454.
Published: 01 June 2003
... a catalog (or perhaps a palimpsest) of the most provocative strands of Native American studies: discussion of the portrayal of American Indians in non- Indian texts, such as Broadway musicals; analysis of better- and lesser-known...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 227–233.
Published: 01 March 2011
... explores the life of pulp novelist Agnes Boulton, who married Eugene O’Neill when he was a little-known playwright. During their decade- long marriage, Boulton negotiated her literary career as her husband gained fame on Broadway. King culls Boulton’s writings, manuscripts, and memoir, Part...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 273–299.
Published: 01 June 2022
... single night in front of “hundreds of pale faces” (Paley 1959 : 12–13), by the mid-1950s, members of the theater either die, retire, or move to Broadway: “The theater ended. Esther Leopold died from being very aged. Krimberg had a heart attack. Marya went to Broadway. Also Raisele changed her name...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 667–674.
Published: 01 September 2018
... five in the New York edition, this study analyzes how errors affect James’s texts. A final chapter goes beyond editorial error to analyze the abortive attempt to adapt The Ambassadors (1903) into a Broadway musical. Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper . By Linda Simon. London: Reaktion...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 233–263.
Published: 01 June 2008
... with the figure he cut and a lifestyle that, by his own account, left much to be desired. In an engraving of Thompson on the front page of Broadway Belle, a pornographic weekly he often edited, he wears his corpulence like his clothing, with little to suggest embarrassment (see fig. 1). If the picture...