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9780313300851

Feast of Strangers: Selected Prose and Poetry of Reuel Denney

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  • ISBN13:

    9780313300851

  • ISBN10:

    0313300852

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-06-01
  • Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

REUEL DENNEY was one of the leading analysts of American culture, a scholar, author, teacher, journalist, and poet.TONY QUAGLIANO is Professor of American Culture and Society at the Japan-America Institute in Honolulu.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Foreword xiii
David Riesman
Editor's Introduction xvii
Experience in the World 1913--1947
1(58)
``For My Girl's Birthday''
53(2)
``Shuttle Island---Largo''
55(1)
``McSorley's Bar''
56(1)
Excerpt from The Portfolio of Benjamin Latrobe---``When Spelling-Bees''
57(2)
The Invisible Hand
59(30)
The Battle of Bretton Woods
59(10)
The Leisure Society
69(20)
Excerpt from The Portfolio of Benjamin Latrobe---``My Grandfather''
86(3)
Experience in the World 1947-1961
89(14)
``Wind in the Sycamore''
100(1)
``A Requiem''
101(1)
``To an Old Friend''
102(1)
Feast of Strangers
103(56)
Feast of Strangers: Varieties of Sociable Experience in America
103(16)
What the Animals Are Saying About Us
119(22)
A Tale of Two Studios: Artist Jean Charlot in Walt Disney's Atelier
141(18)
``Ravenna''
152(1)
``A Wine for Li Po's Picture''
153(1)
Excerpt from The Portfolio of Benjamin Latrobe---``Here at Stairways''
154(5)
Experience in the World 1961-1995
159(22)
Excerpt from ``The Animal Cartel''
159(22)
Modernity and Myth
181(56)
William Carlos Williams
181(11)
A Portable Pagoda: Asia and America in the Work of Gary Snyder
192(17)
Merwin and Myth
209(2)
Hawaiian Heritage
211(3)
Birdman, Myth and Technology
214(23)
``The Laboratory Midnight''
232(1)
``Portrait of the Old Poet as a Used Car''
233(1)
``Pele Poem''
234(1)
Excerpt from The Portfolio of Benjamin Latrobe---``Praises for the Nuuanu Reservoir''
235(2)
Works by Reuel Denney 237(4)
Index 241

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