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Feast of Strangers
Selected Prose and Poetry of Reuel Denney
Feast of Strangers
Selected Prose and Poetry of Reuel Denney
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Poet, social scientist, and literary essayist, Reuel Denney is best known perhaps as co-author of The Lonely Crowd with David Riesman and Nathan Glaser. These selected essays and poems, edited by Tony Quagliano, span a wide range of topics and more than a half century of American cultural history.
The topics range from international finance to leisure, from Greek mythology to Disney, from American poetry to the great oral tradition of Polynesian poetry. Woven throughout is Denney's fascinating memoir Experience in the World, an autobiographical meditation on America in the twentieth century. This unique collection presents one poet and scholar's encounter with the complexities of American life. American culture, Denney shows us, is the product of the many cultures of the world; it is indeed a Feast of Strangers. This is a work for scholars, students, and other researchers of American literature and culture studies.
Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction by Tony Quagliano
Experience in the World 1913-1947
Household Words
A Little Learning
For My Girl's Birthday
Shuttle Island--Largo
McSorley's Bar
Excerpt from The Portfolio of Benjamin Latrobe--"When Spelling Bees"
The Invisible Hand
The Battle of Bretton Woods
The Leisure Society
Excerpt from The Portfolio of Benjamin Latrobe--"My Grandfather"
Experience in the World 1947-1961
It's a Wonderful Town
"Wind in the Sycamore"
"A Requiem"
"To an Old Friend"
Feast of Strangers
Feast of Strangers: Varieties of Sociable Experience in America
What the Animals Are Saying about Us
A Tale of Two Studios: Artist Jean Charlot in Walt Disney's Atelier
"Ravenna"
"A Wine For Li Po's Picture"
Excerpt from The Portfolio of Benjamin Latrobe--"Here at Stairways
Experience in the World 1961-1995
Excerpt From "The Animal Cartel"
West
Modernity and Myth
William Carlos Williams
A Portable Pagoda: Asia and America in the Work of Gary Snyder
Merwin and Myth
Hawaiian Heritage
Birdman, Myth, and Technology
"The Laboratory Midnight"
"Portrait of the Old Poet as a Used Car"
"Pele Poem"
Excerpt from The Portfolio of Benjamin Latrobe--"I Dedicate to Benjamin Henry Latrobe"
Works by Reuel Denney
Index
Product details
| Published | 30 May 1999 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9780313300851 |
| Imprint | Praeger |
| Dimensions | 235 x 156 mm |
| Series | Contributions in American Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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