Thousands of Broadways : dreams and nightmares of the American small town /
Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky's home town of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America's most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of...
| Основен автор: | Pinsky, Robert. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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| Серия: |
Rice University Campbell lectures.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=285076 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Thousands of Broadways. |
| Резюме: |
Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky's home town of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America's most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of departure for a lively journey through the small towns of the American imagination. Thousands of Broadways explores the dreams and nightmares of such small towns-their welcoming yet suffocating, warm yet prejudicial character during their heyday, from the early nineteenth century through World War II. The cit. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (98 pages) : illustrations. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226669465 0226669467 |