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Feast of Strangers Selected Prose and Poetry of Reuel Denney
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Reuel Denney, Tony Quagliano
Foreword by David Riesman
Book Code: GM0085
ISBN: 0-313-30085-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30085-1
272 pages, photographs
Greenwood Press
Publication: 5/30/1999
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Contributions in American Studies
Series Number: 106
Reviews:
  • [T]his well-selected and carefully arranged compendium of Denney's several voices provides us with a wonderfully satisfying introduction to the works of one of our best writers.
    —Words & Music
Description: 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:
  • Foreword by David Riesman
  • 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
LC Card Number: 98-26417
LCC Class: PS3507
Dewey Class: 814
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