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The Chicago Literary Experience is a concise literary history of the city of Chicago. Taking as its thematic starting point the city's famous World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the book provides an account of the city's rapid and in many ways unprecedented development from a trading post to a metropolis, and it examines the many literary responses to this new urban environment. By contextualizing literature written about the city in these formative years, the book shows not only how the city influenced its writers, but also how these writers struggled to transform their urban environment into literary forms. Covering such aspect as the emergence of the novel of the businessman as cultural hero, the humorous newspaper columns of the late 19th century, and the Depression-era revitalization of Chicago literature from its ethnic neighborhoods, The Chicago Literary Experience moves beyond the obvious "classics" and rediscovers a vibrant literary tradition that restores almost-forgotten w

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Plný název: Chicago Literary Experience
• Podnázev: Writing the City, 1893-1953
• Autor: Kohlert, Frederik Byrn, MA
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 180
• EAN: 9788763507769
• ISBN: 9788763507769
• ID: 09009681
• Nakladatelství: Museum Tusculanum Press
• Hmotnost: 292 g
• Rozměry: 212 × 150 × 13 mm
• Datum vydání: 15. January 2011

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