Literature & the urban experience : essays on the city and literature / edited by Michael C. Jaye and Ann Chalmers Watts.
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[1981]
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Table of Contents:
- Modern poetry is prose (but it is saying plenty) / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Imaginary cities : America / Joyce Carol Oates
- City limits, village values : Concepts of the neighborhood in Black fiction / Toni Morrison
- Poetry and the modern city / Stephen Spender
- The poet and the city : Robert Lowell / Helen Vendler
- The puzzle of anti-urbanism in classic American literature / Leo Marx
- New York from Melville to Mailer / Alfred Kazin
- Cities of mind, urban words : the dematerialization of metropolis in contemporary American fiction / Ihab Hassan
- Mythicizing the city / Leslie Fiedler
- Theater and cities / Richard Eder
- The language of the streets / James Baldwin
- Black literature and the Afro-American nation : the urban voice / Amiri Baraka
- Culture confrontation in urban America : a writer's beginnings / Chaim Potok
- A double life : the fate of the urban ethnic / Jerre Mangione
- The city and I / Pedro Juan Soto
- Living with change / David Ignatow
- The city as battleground : the novelist as combatant / Marge Piercy
- The child's perception of the city / Bruno Bettelheim
- Borrowing and lending : the young reader and the library / Joan N. Burstyn
- Literature for youth : the city as heaven and /or hell / M. Jerry Weiss
- A people's paper for the inner city / John Holt.