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Format: 1 online resource(360 p.) : , illustrations.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2014. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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ISBN: 9780231538190

Content: Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe--this anthology is the first to focus on the unique history and transporting experience of a beloved fixture of the New York City landscape.Moody, mystical, and enchanting, Coney Island has thrilled newcomers and soothed native New Yorkers for decades. With itsFeaturing a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe--A Coney Island Reader is the first collection to focus on the unique history and transporting experience of a beloved fixture of the New York City landscape. Coney Island has long offered a kaleidoscopic panorama of people, places, and events. This anthology captures the highs and lows of that sensation, with works that imagine Coney Island as a restful resort, a playground for the masses, and a symbol of America's democratic spirit, as well as a Sodom by the sea, a garish display of capitalist excess, and a paradigm of urban decay. As complex as the city of which it is a part, Coney Island engenders limitless perspectives, a composite inspiring everyone who encounters it to sing its electric song. fantasy entertainments, renowned beach foods, world-class boardwalk, and expansive beach, it provides a welcome respite from the city's dense neighborhoods, unrelenting traffic, and somber grid. Coney Island has long offered a kaleidoscopic panorama of people, places, and events, creating, as Lawrence Ferlinghetti once wrote, "a Coney Island of the mind." This anthology captures the highs and lows of that sensation, with works that imagine Coney Island as a restful resort, a playground for the masses, and a symbol of America's democratic spirit, as well as a Sodom by the sea, a garish display of capitalist excess, and a paradigm of urban decay. As complex as the city of which it is a part, Coney Island engenders limitless perspectives, a composite inspiring everyone who encounters it to sing its electric song.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Foreword -- , Acknowledgments -- , A Note on the text -- , Selected chronology of coney island -- , Introduction -- , The Beginnings Through 1896 -- , [Clam-Bake At Coney Island] -- , Acconey Island -- , To Coney Island -- , Coney Island -- , Coney Island’S Failing Days -- , Coney Island -- , The Era Of The Three Great Amusement Parks, 1897–1911 -- , Marvelous Coney Island -- , Human Need Of Coney Island -- , Boredom -- , The Master Showman of Coney Island -- , Amusing the Million -- , The way of the girl -- , Why Is Coney? -- , The Coney Island Excursion -- , Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand other Islands -- , Coney Island -- , The Greater Coney -- , Dreamland -- , In Dreams begin Responsibilities -- , Sunday -- , Ruins Help Draw 350,000 To Coney -- , The Nickel Empire: Coney In Transition 1912–1948 -- , The Tingling, Tangling Tango as ’Tis Tripped at Coney Isle -- , New Cosmopolis -- , Human Nature with the Brakes Off—Or: Why the Schoolma’Am Walked into the sea -- , Coney -- , Coney Island -- , Into the Night Life -- , Now and then -- , The Electric Michelangelo -- , Attachment to Letter to Mayor Fiorello Laguardia -- , To Heaven by Subway -- , Coney -- , Stranger At Coney Island -- , The Years of Decline and the Hope of Rebirth 1949 to the Present -- , A Coney Island of the Mind -- , The Warriors -- , Coney Island in November -- , My son the Murderer -- , Mayor Blasts ta Brass on Coney Island Debacle -- , Kwan’S Coney Island -- , Coney Island 1969 -- , Coney Island -- , A Coney island of the mind -- , City Planning Begins Public Review on Rezoning of Coney Island: New York City Department of City Planning -- , Comments on the Revised Draft Scope of Analysis for Coney Island Rezoning Project: Municipal Art Society -- , Confessions of a Coney Island Sideshow Performer -- , A Coney Island of the Mind -- , Appendix: Coney Island in Movies and Music|317 -- , Permissions , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/para16572

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/para16572

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/para16572

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Format: 1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-231-53819-7

Content: Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe--this anthology is the first to focus on the unique history and transporting experience of a beloved fixture of the New York City landscape.Moody, mystical, and enchanting, Coney Island has thrilled newcomers and soothed native New Yorkers for decades. With its fantasy entertainments, renowned beach foods, world-class boardwalk, and expansive beach, it provides a welcome respite from the city's dense neighborhoods, unrelenting traffic, and somber grid. Coney Island has long offered a kaleidoscopic panorama of people, places, and events, creating, as Lawrence Ferlinghetti once wrote, "a Coney Island of the mind." This anthology captures the highs and lows of that sensation, with works that imagine Coney Island as a restful resort, a playground for the masses, and a symbol of America's democratic spirit, as well as a Sodom by the sea, a garish display of capitalist excess, and a paradigm of urban decay. As complex as the city of which it is a part, Coney Island engenders limitless perspectives, a composite inspiring everyone who encounters it to sing its electric song.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Foreword / , Acknowledgments -- , A Note on the text -- , Selected chronology of coney island -- , Introduction -- , The Beginnings Through 1896 -- , [Clam-Bake At Coney Island] / , Acconey Island / , To Coney Island / , Coney Island / , Coney Island'S Failing Days / , Coney Island / , The Era Of The Three Great Amusement Parks, 1897-1911 -- , Marvelous Coney Island / , Human Need Of Coney Island / , Boredom / , The Master Showman of Coney Island / , Amusing the Million / , The way of the girl / , Why Is Coney? / , The Coney Island Excursion / , Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand other Islands / , Coney Island / , The Greater Coney / , Dreamland / , In Dreams begin Responsibilities / , Sunday / , Ruins Help Draw 350,000 To Coney -- , The Nickel Empire: Coney In Transition 1912-1948 -- , The Tingling, Tangling Tango as 'Tis Tripped at Coney Isle / , New Cosmopolis / , Human Nature with the Brakes Off-Or: Why the Schoolma'Am Walked into the sea / , Coney / , Coney Island / , Into the Night Life / , Now and then / , The Electric Michelangelo / , Attachment to Letter to Mayor Fiorello Laguardia / , To Heaven by Subway -- , Coney / , Stranger At Coney Island -- , The Years of Decline and the Hope of Rebirth 1949 to the Present -- , A Coney Island of the Mind / , The Warriors / , Coney Island in November / , My son the Murderer / , Mayor Blasts ta Brass on Coney Island Debacle / , Kwan'S Coney Island / , Coney Island 1969 / , Coney Island / , A Coney island of the mind -- , City Planning Begins Public Review on Rezoning of Coney Island -- , Comments on the Revised Draft Scope of Analysis for Coney Island Rezoning Project -- , Confessions of a Coney Island Sideshow Performer / , A Coney Island of the Mind / , Appendix -- , Permissions , Issued also in print. , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-231-16573-0

Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

DOI: 10.7312/para16572

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Format: 1 online resource (xxiv, 333 pages) : , illustrations (black and white)

ISBN: 9780231538190 (ebook) :

Content: Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers - including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, and Katie Roiphe - this anthology focusses on the unique history and transporting experience of a beloved fixture of the New York City landscape. It captures the highs and lows of the place, with works that picture it as a restful resort, a playground for the masses and a symbol of America's democratic spirit, as well as a Sodom by the sea, a garish display of capitalist excess and a paradigm of urban decay.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780231165730

Language: English

URL: Columbia scholarship online