Download or read book Vignettes of Manhattan Outlines in Local Color written by Brander Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vignettes of Manhattan Outlines in Local Color written by Matthews Brander and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Vignettes of Manhattan Outlines in Local Color written by Brander Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vignettes of Manhattan Outlines in Local Color written by Brander Matthews and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TOTHEODORE ROOSEVELTMy dear Theodore,-You know-for we have talked it over often enough-that I do not hold you to be a typical New-Yorker, since you come of Dutch stock, and first saw the light here on Manhattan Island, whereas the typical New-Yorker is born of New England parents, perhaps somewhere west of the Alleghanies. You know, also, that often the typical New-Yorker is not proud of the city of his choice, and not so loyal to it as we could wish. He has no abiding concern for this maligned and misunderstood town of ours; he does not thrill with pride at the sight of its powerful and irregular profile as he comes back to it across the broad river; nor is his heart lifted up with joy at the sound of its increasing roar, so suggestive and so stimulating. But we have a firm affection for New York, you and I, and a few besides; we like it for what it is; and we love it for what we hope to see it.It is because of this common regard for our strange and many-sided city that I am giving myself the pleasure of proffering to you this little volume of vignettes. They are not stories really, I am afraid-not sketches even, nor studies; they are, I think, just what I have called them-vignettes. And then there are a dozen of them, one for every month in the year, an urban calendar of times and seasons. Such as they are, I beg that you will accept them in token of my friendship and esteem; and that you will believe me, always,Yours truly,BRANDER MATTHEWS
Download or read book Index to Short Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outlines in Local Color written by Brander Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Short Stories by Present day Authors written by Raymond Woodbury Pence and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Best Short Stories of and the Yearbook of the American Short Story written by Martha Foley and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Best American Short Stories and the Yearbook of the American Short Story written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays by Present day Writers written by Raymond Woodbury Pence and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The City in Slang written by Irving Lewis Allen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York. In The City in Slang, Irving Lewis Allen traces this flowering of popular expressions that accompanied the emergence of the New York metropolis from the early nineteenth century down to the present. This unique account of the cultural and social history of America's greatest city provides in effect a lexicon of popular speech about city life. With many stories Allen shows how this vocabulary arose from city streets, often interplaying with vaudeville, radio, movies, comics, and the popular songs of Tin Pan Alley. Some terms of great pertinence to city people today have unexpectedly old pedigrees. Rush hour was coined by 1890, for instance, and rubberneck dates to the late 1890s and became popular in New York to describe the busloads of tourists who craned their necks to see the tall buildings and the sights of the Bowery and Chinatown. The Big Apple itself (since 1971 the official nickname of New York) appeared in the 1920s, though first in reference to the city's top racetracks and to Broadway bookings as pinnacles of professional endeavor. Allen also tells fascinating stories behind once-popular slang that is no longer in use. Spielers, for example, were the little girls in tenement districts who danced ecstatically on the sidewalks to the music of the hurdy-gurdy men and, when they were old enough, frequented the dance halls of the Lower East Side. Following the trail of these words and phrases into the city's East Side, West Side, and all around the town, from Harlem to Wall Street, and into the haunts of its high and low life, The City in Slang is a fascinating look at the rich cultural heritage of language about city life.
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Download or read book Vistas of New York written by Brander Matthews and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Vistas of New York by Brander Matthews
Download or read book The City Since 9 11 written by Keith Wilhite and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting the intersection of aesthetic representation and the material conditions of urban space, The City Since 9/11 posits that the contemporary metropolis provides a significant context for reassessing theoretical concerns related to narrative, identity, home, and personal precarity. In the years since the September 11 attacks, writers and filmmakers have explored urban spaces as contested sites—shaped by the prevailing discourses of neoliberalism, homeland security, and the war on terror, but also haunted by an absence in the landscape that registers loss and prefigures future menace. In works of literature, film, and television, the city emerges as a paradoxical space of permanence and vulnerability and a convergence point for anxieties about globalization, structural inequality, and apocalyptic violence. Building on previous scholarship addressing trauma and the spectacle of terror, the contributors also draw upon works of philosophy, urban studies, and postmodern geography to theorize how literary and visual representations expose the persistent conflicts that arise as cities rebuild in the shadow of past ruins. Their essays advance new lines of argument that clarify art’s role in contemporary debates about spatial practices, gentrification, cosmopolitanism, memory and history, nostalgia, the uncanny and the abject, postmodern virtuality, the politics of realism, and the economic and social life of cities. The book offers fresh readings of familiar post-9/11 novels, such as Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, but it also considers works by Teju Cole, Joseph O’Neill, Silver Krieger, Colum McCann, Ronald Sukenick, Jonathan Lethem, Thomas Pynchon, Colson Whitehead, Paul Auster, William Gibson, Amitav Ghosh, and Katherine Boo. In addition, The City Since 9/11 includes essays on the films Children of Men, Hugo, and the adaptation of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, chapters on the television series The Bridge, The Killing, and The Wire, and an analysis of Michael Arad’s Reflecting Absence and the 9/11 Memorial.
Download or read book Century Readings in the American Short Story written by Fred Lewis Pattee and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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