Column Book of F. P. A.
Author | : Franklin Pierce Adams |
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Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1928 |
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Author | : Franklin Pierce Adams |
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Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1928 |
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Author | : Bessie Graham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Best books |
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Author | : Bessie Graham |
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Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Best books |
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Author | : Nina Miller |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 1999-01-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195353854 |
In the teens and twenties, New York was home to a rich variety of literary subcultures. Within these intermingled worlds, gender lines and other boundaries were crossed in ways that were hardly imaginable in previous decades. Among the bohemians of Greenwich Village, the sophisticates of the Algonquin Round Table, and the literati of the Harlem Renaissance, certain women found fresh, powerful voices through which to speak and write. Enda St. Vincent Millay and Dorothy Parker are now best remembered for their colorful lives; Genevieve Taggard, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Helene Johnson are hardly remembered at all. Yet each made a serious literary contribution to the meaning of modern femininity, relationship, and selfhood. Making Love Modern uncovers the deep historical sensitivity and interest in these women's love poetry. Placing their work in the context of subcultures nested within national culture, Nina Miller explores the tensions that make this literature so rewarding for contemporary readers. A poetry of intimate expression, it also functioned powerfully as public assertion. The writers themselves were high-profile embodiments of femininity, the local representatives of New Womanhood within their male-centered subcultural worlds. This book captures the literary lives of these woman as well as the complex subcultures they inhabited--Harlem, the Village, and glamorous midtown Manhattan.
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Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Best books |
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Author | : Robert E. Drennan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1510724397 |
The perfect gift for the snarky literature fan in your life! “Stop looking at the world through rose-colored bifocals.” “His mind is so open, the wind whistles through it.” “You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.” Ever wonder where these sayings came from? For decades, the dining room of New York’s legendary Algonquin Hotel was a hub of letters and humor. Cocktails swirled as writers, humorists, actors, and critics poked fun at culture, the arts, and one another. In this lively tribute, today’s readers will come to understand why Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, and Dorothy Parker represent the epitome of quips and comebacks—wit that still packs a punch decades later. Each chapter contains: A short biographical sketch A photo of the great American wit Handpicked collection of quotes and anecdotes Packaged in a contemporary cover, this is the perfect gift or coffee table book. Discover the sarcasm, double entendres, insults, and jabs that earned these sharp minds the collective title of “the Vicious Circle.”
Author | : June Barrows Mussey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : American wit and humor |
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Author | : Steven H. Gale |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1324 |
Release | : 2016-04-14 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1317362268 |
First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
Author | : Robert E. Drennan |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2012-08 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1616087137 |
A tribute to wit and humor, from the minds that made the AlgonquinRound Table the center of American...
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Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : American literature |
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