Sidney Bremer (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Printing. base 6"x9"; 242 pages; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Printing. 1992 1st Printing. Fine Hardback Book in Fine Dust Jacket. An as new copy in a comparable dust jacket. 258pp. Sm4to, (G).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine hardback copy in a Near Fine dust jacket except for a few pencil notes on endpaper. INSCRIBED by author to author/scholar David Levin. Inscribed:" This very first copy of my first book finally." #.

Unknown. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Staple Bound Paperback. Condition: Good. Minor wear & toning to wraps with small stains. Corners of text block bumped. Text is unmarked.

very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, attractive copy, probably unused. BREMER, SIDNEY H. Urban intersections: meetings of life and literature in United States cities. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992, xvi, 258pp., . What is "urban" literature? In Urban Intersections, Sidney Bremer looks beyond the skyscraper to reveal earlier and continuing images of the neighborhood, the street, and the family home challenging the universality of urban alienation. She reminds us of the many regional, women, and ethnic writers who have articulated the expressive and communal life of cities in the United States. Tracking the development of the American city from "city-town" through "economic city," "neighborhood city," and "megalopolis," Bremer explores how our perceptions and expectations of urban areas have changed over time. Texts by authors such as James Fenimore Cooper, William Dean Howells before 1890, then Chicagoans Edith Wyatt and Elia Peattie document city dwellers creating communities and connections.^, While Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair, and Nathanael West went on to describe the alienating machinery of the city, other writers were exploring life on New York's Jewish Lower East Side, in Harlem during its renaissance, in the South, and even in Chicago, in stories of home within the city, of struggling toward social identity, of dignity and strength. Bremer argues that these works constitute a countertradition worthy of attention. Beginning with a discussion of how we define texts as "urban," Bremer shows how city-town imagery in literature emphasizes flexibility, communal values, and multiple perspectives as characters create and interpret newborn American cities. She then shifts from this regional perspective to post-Romantic, turn-of-the-century Chicago as the national epitome of literature's anti-natural economic city.^, Bremer argues that writers such as Dreiser and Frank Norris dramatize how individualism "both exacerbates the excesses of modern urban life and proves inadequate to control it." While this literature rose to prominence, inscribing "urban alienation" in America's consciousness, another genre of urban literature - from a female perspective - continued to challenge it. Willa Cather, Edith Wyatt, Elia Peattie, and others wrote of the civic family that existed alongside the more resonant alienation. A similar communalism parading in the streets of Harlem and the Upper East Side of New York symbolized African- and Jewish-American struggles for identity, as individuals and as groups, within the modern city. James Weldon Johnson, Abraham Cahan, and their successors enlighten us about the vitality of modern urban experience in literature. - CONTENTS: Introduction. Locating urban texts and contexts in United States literature -- 1. Pre-Civil War city-towns -- 2. Toward a national economic city -- 3. The standard Chicago novel -- 4. Chicago's residential novels and their social roots -- 5. New York's megalopolitan nightmares -- 6. The urban home of the Harlem Renaissance -- 7. Neighborhood-city dreams -- 8. Regional perspectives and situated insights. 9780252018862 ISBN 0252018869.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. New - unused and unread ex-libris copy. Stamp to text block.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st. Heavy, extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. The boards are worn, rubbed and marked. Small edge tears. Some foxing. Spill marks on the first few pages. Internally clean and tightly bound. Fair copy. [P.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Good condition. 5 Volume set. Revised edition. Covers and pages foxed. (success, psychology, applied ) NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Hard Cover. No Jacket. Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HBNO DJ, Oversized, January 1930, 1st edition, corner bump,spine minor chip, VG-, NODJ.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. clean, tight and unmarked, prior owner name, gentle shelf wear.pages toned.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Acceptable. Shelf wear on cover. Staining on page edges. Pictures available upon request.

COMB WHITE. Full Title Page: The Science of Personal Achievement, Organized from the Lifetime Experiences of More than 500 of the top ranking men of achievement in the United States, a Philosophy of Success sponsored by Andrew Carnegie Philanthropist and Founder of United States Steel Corporation General wear, top 1 and base 4 comb pieces broken, plastic layer on cover lightly peeling at corners of front cover, light agetoning on covers, otherwise excellent condition DATE PUBLISHED: 1963 EDITION: 272.…

COMB WHITE. Condition: VG. General wear, contained in worn box with slip cover, staining and residue from adhesive materials and packaging on cover case, wear causing box and cover to crease and bend slightly, slight scuffing or bending to covers DATE PUBLISHED: 1963 EDITION.