...) and Sylvia Beach's memoir Shakespeare and Company (1956) use ideas about consumer capitalism espoused by U.S. consumer elites (policy makers, industrialists, and public relations professionals) to construe their authors as American modernists. In these two texts, Stein and Beach regard consumption...

...Christopher Beach Ed. Herbert Bergman, Douglas Noverr, and Edward Recchia. New York: Peter Lang. 1998. lxx, 590 pp. $44.95. 2000 Book Reviews 5995 AL 72:1 / sheet 185 of 246 Authorizing Experience: Refigurations...

... archipelago that W. E. B. DuBois, in his description of the planetary color line, referred to as “the islands of the sea.” The insular spaces upon which the novel relies include Key West, Palm Beach, the Caribbean, Hellas, the Malay Archipelago, and others. Each of these spaces exerts parallax influence upon...

...Diarmuid Hester Abstract In this article I consider the impact of New York school poetry and New York punk rock on the Los Angeles literary scene of the 1970s and 1980s. I explore a distinct group of poets that emerged around a Venice Beach, California, literary arts center but was profoundly East...

...Carlo Rotella By Chris Messenger. Albany: SUNY Press. 2002. viii, 344 pp. Cloth, $75.50;paper, $25.95. By Christopher Beach. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. viii, 241 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.00. 2003 458 American Literature...

... Beach. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. viii, 241 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.00. These two studies take essentially literary approaches to popular culture. Messenger’s reading of The Godfather...

... Beach couches this account of generic mutation within the outline of a his- torical argument featuring the Production Code, the waning of Depression-era class consciousness, the postwar expansion of the middle class, and a grow...

... into being.” The flooding of lower Manhattan and the electrical outage below 14th Street, the drownings in Midland Beach, Staten Island—these events, among others such as fires in Queens and massive flooding along the New Jersey coast, exceeded what many of us could imagine, pushing people beyond the limits...

... listening “in postures of unusual attention” to a sermon delivered by Moses Beach, editor of the New York Sun . According to the report, Beach put forth a utopic vision of the relationship between newsboys and the papers that employed them, emphasizing the “progressive influence of the institution...

.... The plain beach, the red West, the giant trunks with their crooked crowns & roots, (the largest could not have been 74 American Literature less than 20 feet in circumference) the the [sic] immense eddying stream & the thin far off line of forest. WJ 133–34) As potential landscape artists...

... and the American historian. Christopher Beach, in an American Literature review of volume 1 (March 2000), noted that The Journalism provides ‘‘much grist for the mill’’ of Whit- man criticism and scholarship. This is especially true when comparing not only what Whitman was writing but also when he...

... and Sui Sin Far “Falling away before us, tiers of banana trees, a cur- tain of dense green foam between us and the land. . . . These beaches are up for grabs.” Édouard Glissant, pondering centuries of domina- tion and dislocation by European and U.S.-sponsored violence, urges...

... when it comes to the issues central to the two books I discuss here: the ocean and mass extinction. From garbage patches to bleached coral, beached whales, and acidification, from bees to polar bears, the news is uniformly bad. Environmentalist stories tend toward the melancholy arc of decline, drawing...

... before been reprinted. Most engagingly, these editorials and short journalistic pieces establish Whitman as a touchstone in his time for both the literary critic and the American historian. Christopher Beach, in an American Literature review of volume 1 (March 2000), noted that The Journalism...

... , eds. 1993 . Imperial Power and Regional Trade: The Caribbean Basin Initiative . Waterloo, ON : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press . Ball Charlene M. 2001 . “ Old Magic, New Fury: The Theophany of Afrekete in Audre Lorde’s ‘Tar Beach .”’ NWSA Journal 15 , no. 1 : 61 – 85 . Bishop...

... Bookshop, ‘‘the most famous centre for poets in the English-speaking world’’ between 1912 and 1935 (113); he also helped other similar bookshops get started, most notably Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company. At the same...

... frustrations about Miriam with Bruno, situating his disdain for her within the context of his own tentative commission to design the Pal- myra Club in Palm Beach. As Bruno says about the commission, “You’re gonna be famous, huh?” and, in fact, there is significant professional prestige if Guy’s design...

..., the political novel) failed as an aesthetic project precisely because it sought to represent politics directly. The read- ings of individual texts (Nevil Shute’s On the Beach, for instance) are often superb, as Végso´´ is able to demonstrate how a modernist “formal principle” of the “limits...

... as transnational patterns of nonwhite capitalism from Tokyo and Hong Kong continue to shuffle and molest the region. Terese Svoboda captures the alien posture of contempo- rary international tourists ‘‘here to buy the beaches...

... The young man obeyed his shadowy guide, or some prompting of his own profound intuition, and went out the door and down to the beach, where, gazing across the narrow channel, on the beach of the Bull, he saw his...