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The New York School of Urban Ecology: The New Yorker , Rachel Carson, and Jane Jacobs
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 583–610.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Jamin Creed Rowan Rowan's essay traces the emergence of a new ecological discourse that began to shape thinking about urban life across disciplines in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, urban institutions such as the New Yorker embraced what historians Michael Barbour, Robert McIntosh...
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Published: 01 March 2017
Figure 6. Untitled illustration by Alison Bechdel. New Yorker , April 23, 2012, 48. Copyright © 2012 Alison Bechdel. Reprinted with permission of Alison Bechdel. All rights reserved.
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Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 876–877.
Published: 01 December 2000
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that she is not an academic but a staff writer for the New Yorker who pub-
lishes on both literary and nonliterary subjects. This book expands her 1995
New Yorker essay, ‘‘Willa Cather and the Academy a piece that caused a stir...
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Queer Poetics: Five Modernist Women Writers
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 877–878.
Published: 01 December 2000
... of Acocella’s analysis are due largely to the fact
that she is not an academic but a staff writer for the New Yorker who pub-
lishes on both literary and nonliterary subjects. This book expands her 1995
New Yorker essay...
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Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890–1940 The Language of Vision: Photography and Southern Literature in the 1930s and After
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 209–212.
Published: 01 March 2019
... a physical space,” he reiterates: “It is also a state of mind” (62). Reinvigorating that truism could mean demonstrating New Yorkers carrying that “state” outside the city or examining others who look on New York without buying into its self-mythologizing, its casting of itself as the American metropolis par...
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Melville in the Customhouse Attic
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 305–332.
Published: 01 June 2010
... conjoined images of urban
space and literary production portray diminished prospects for cul-
tural distinction. Redburn’s narrator imagines New Yorkers of a dis-
tant future who “may send forth explorers to penetrate into the then
obscure and smoky alleys of the Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth...
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Sono-Montage: Langston Hughes and Tony Schwartz Listen to Postwar New York
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 275–302.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Smithsonian Global Sound. Accessed March 25, 2014. search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/72041 . ———. 1955 . Nueva York: A Tape Documentary of Puerto Rican New Yorkers . Folkways Records FW05559. Copy of LP in streaming digital format from Smithsonian Global Sound. Accessed March 25, 2014...
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“I’m Very Happy to Be in the Reality-Based Community”: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home , Digital Photography, and George W. Bush
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 121–154.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Figure 6. Untitled illustration by Alison Bechdel. New Yorker , April 23, 2012, 48. Copyright © 2012 Alison Bechdel. Reprinted with permission of Alison Bechdel. All rights reserved. ...
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Brief Mention
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 221–228.
Published: 01 March 2001
... of
Elizabeth Bishop by ‘‘explor[ing] the theoretical grounds and enabling condi-
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tions for Bishop’s distinct poetry, drawing from Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogism
and Bishop’s own artistic theories elaborated in her prose, notebooks, and
letters
Defining ‘New Yorker’ Humor...
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“Like a Motherless Child”: Racial Education at the New York African Free School and in My Bondage and My Freedom
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 461–488.
Published: 01 September 2010
... City, provides remarkable access to
the experience of African American New Yorkers during the crucial
decades of the 1810s and 1820s as statewide manumission approached
in 1827. Containing the juvenilia of some of the leading members of the
early black elite, this archive allows us to engage...
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Contested Terrain: The Suburbs as Region
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 617–644.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... Louis,” an essay originally pub-
lished in The New Yorker, the whole drama boils down to an unfortu-
nate misunderstanding created by a midwesterner’s desire to make
all the people happy all of the time. Part mea culpa, part “Aw, shucks,”
the essay showcases Franzen’s efforts to resist his...
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Restaging the Racial Contract: James Weldon Johnson's Signatory Strategies
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 March 2002
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of the relationship between identity and ‘‘place of birth
It would not have taken a psychologist to understand that I was born
to be a New Yorker. In fact, I was partly a New Yorker already. Even
then I had a dual sense of home. From the time that I could distin-
guish the meaning of words I had been...
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Public Humanities in the Reconstructed University
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 781–790.
Published: 01 December 2020
... For more on the Public Theater tour, see Marks 2018 and Pochoda 2018 . References Als Hilton . 2016 . “ Black Lives Matter Onstage .” New Yorker , November 21 . https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/black-lives-matter-onstage . Brantley Ben . 2017 . “ Review: ‘Sweat...
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The Old Men and the “Sea of Masscult”: T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and Middlebrow Aesthetics
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 151–174.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of such capital proceeded by disavow-
ing itself, by going on tacitly).47 This is what is going on, for instance,
in a parodic New Yorker article by James Thurber, in which insuffer-
able party guests discuss Eliot’s play:
“I’m not so stupid as to believe that the cocktail party in ‘The Cock-
tail Party...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 148–150.
Published: 01 March 2021
...., and St. Clair McKelway (all writers for the “Reporter at Large” feature of the New Yorker ). Throughout, Rowan is on the lookout for those urban intellects that resist the primacy of intimacy and instead embrace the sociability of urban cohabitants. Following Richard Sennett’s assertion that intimacy...
View articletitled, Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans Building Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning The Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition
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Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder , African American Literature, and Periodical Culture The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 651–653.
Published: 01 September 2018
... the Recorder and its soldier readers, and the essayistic contributions of occasional correspondents like Australian sojourner Daniel Adger and transcendentalist New Yorker–turned–Louisiana educator Edmonia Goodelle Highgate. Forming part 2 of the book, these chapters make for the most compelling reading...
View articletitled, Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder , African American Literature, and Periodical Culture The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation
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On the Make: Truman Capote, Seriality, and the Performance of Celebrity
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 569–595.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... The Muses Are Heard was first serialized in two issues of the New Yorker in October 1956. Random House collected the work in a single hard-cover volume at the end of the same year with a curious subtitle: “An Account.” The work documented Capote’s travels with director Robert Breen’s globetrotting...
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Brief Mention
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 869–873.
Published: 01 December 2016
... in the New Yorker as a staff writer. This collection assembles these portraits of American artists according to the form of rhapsody, a structure “linked by recurring themes and problems, forming sequences and cycles and sometimes even marking progress.” Essay topics include Edith Wharton, Nina Simone, Bert...
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Makandal and Pandemic Knowledge: Literature, Fetish, and Health in the Plantationocene
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 723–735.
Published: 01 December 2020
... relations Black radical tradition In a New Yorker essay on the relation between the current pandemic and environmental and agricultural history, science historian Kate Brown ( 2020 ) foregrounds a pressing need to rethink the science of species boundaries: The history of civilization has hinged...
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A Soliloquy “Lately Spoken at the African Theatre”: Race and the Public Sphere in New York City, 1821
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 1–46.
Published: 01 March 2001
... City, 1821
Luis Iglesias,
Sonia Di Loreto,
Jeffrey Scraba, and
Sandra Young
In 1821 a small theater opened in New York City,
billing itself as the American Theatre but known to most New Yorkers
only as the African Theatre. After playing with frequent interruptions...
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