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The City in Slang

Author : Irving Lewis Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195357760
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The City in Slang written by Irving Lewis Allen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York. In The City in Slang, Irving Lewis Allen traces this flowering of popular expressions that accompanied the emergence of the New York metropolis from the early nineteenth century down to the present. This unique account of the cultural and social history of America's greatest city provides in effect a lexicon of popular speech about city life. With many stories Allen shows how this vocabulary arose from city streets, often interplaying with vaudeville, radio, movies, comics, and the popular songs of Tin Pan Alley. Some terms of great pertinence to city people today have unexpectedly old pedigrees. Rush hour was coined by 1890, for instance, and rubberneck dates to the late 1890s and became popular in New York to describe the busloads of tourists who craned their necks to see the tall buildings and the sights of the Bowery and Chinatown. The Big Apple itself (since 1971 the official nickname of New York) appeared in the 1920s, though first in reference to the city's top racetracks and to Broadway bookings as pinnacles of professional endeavor. Allen also tells fascinating stories behind once-popular slang that is no longer in use. Spielers, for example, were the little girls in tenement districts who danced ecstatically on the sidewalks to the music of the hurdy-gurdy men and, when they were old enough, frequented the dance halls of the Lower East Side. Following the trail of these words and phrases into the city's East Side, West Side, and all around the town, from Harlem to Wall Street, and into the haunts of its high and low life, The City in Slang is a fascinating look at the rich cultural heritage of language about city life.

Alrightniks Row

Author : Samuel Ornitz
Publisher : Markus Wiener Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780910129497
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Alrightniks Row written by Samuel Ornitz and published by Markus Wiener Pub. This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel portrays people born in the tenements who fight their way out of the slums to make it to the fashionable Allrightniks Row. Its characters include a corrupt judge whose gross obesity has made him the Haunch Paunch and Jowl in the newspapers' cartoons.

Allrightniks Row

Author : Samuel Ornitz
Publisher : Markus Wiener Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780910129466
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Allrightniks Row written by Samuel Ornitz and published by Markus Wiener Pub. This book was released on 1986 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel portrays people born in the tenements who fight their way out of the slums to make it to the fashionable Allrightniks Row. Its characters include a corrupt judge whose gross obesity has made him the ""Haunch Paunch and Jowl"" in the newspapers' cartoons.

Borrowings in Informal American English

Author : Małgorzata Kowalczyk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009346873
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Borrowings in Informal American English written by Małgorzata Kowalczyk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a rich range of sources, this pioneering book provides a comprehensive description of informal borrowings in American English.

The Lariat

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Lariat written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Allrightniks Row, "Haunch Paunch and Jowl"

Author : Samuel Ornitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Allrightniks Row, "Haunch Paunch and Jowl" written by Samuel Ornitz and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transcultural English Studies

Author : Frank Schulze-Engler
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042025638
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Transcultural English Studies written by Frank Schulze-Engler and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is most strikingly new about the transcultural is its sudden ubiquity. Following in the wake of previous concepts in cultural and literary studies such as creolization, hybridity, and syncretism, and signalling a family relationship to terms such as transnationality, translocality, and transmigration, 'transcultural' terminology has unobtrusively but powerfully edged its way into contemporary theoretical and critical discourse. The four sections of this volume denote major areas where 'transcultural' questions and problematics have come to the fore: theories of culture and literature that have sought to account for the complexity of culture in a world increasingly characterized by globalization, transnationalization, and interdependence; realities of individual and collective life-worlds shaped by the ubiquity of phenomena and experiences relating to transnational connections and the blurring of cultural boundaries; fictions in literature and other media that explore these realities, negotiate the fuzzy edges of 'ethnic' or 'national' cultures, and participate in the creation of transnational public spheres as well as transcultural imaginations and memories; and, finally, pedagogy and didactics, where earlier models of teaching 'other' cultures are faced with the challenge of coming to terms with cultural complexity both in what is being taught and in the people it is taught to, and where 'target cultures' have become elusive. The idea of 'locating' culture and literature exclusively in the context of ethnicities or nations is rapidly losing plausibility throughout an 'English-speaking world' that has long since been multi- rather than monolingual. Exploring the prospects and contours of 'Transcultural English Studies' thus reflects a set of common challenges and predicaments that in recent years have increasingly moved centre stage not only in the New Literatures in English, but also in British and American studies.

Haunch, Paunch and Jowl

Author : Samuel Ornitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Haunch, Paunch and Jowl written by Samuel Ornitz and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Multilingual Apple

Author : Ofelia García
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110885816
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Multilingual Apple written by Ofelia García and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will be of special interest to the general reader concerned with the issue of language in the United States, as well as the language specialist and sociolinguist. It has been written to inform those wishing to learn more about the role that languages other than English have had, and continue to have, in the life of the most important United States city, New York. At the same time this volume makes an important contribution to the scholarly literature on urban multilingualism and the sociology of language. The book contains chapters on languages of ethnolinguistic groups who arrived early in New York and which have been somewhat silenced (Irish, German, Yiddish), the languages of groups who made early contributions and continue to be heard in the city (Italian, Greek , Spanish, Hebrew), and languages which are acquiring an important voice in the city today (Chinese, Indian languages, English creoles, Haitian Creole).

Allrightniks Row

Author : Samuel Ornitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Allrightniks Row written by Samuel Ornitz and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cinematic Fictions

Author : David Seed
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846318122
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Fictions written by David Seed and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase 'cinematic fiction' has now been generally accepted into critical discourse, but is usually applied to post-war novels. This book asks a simple question: given their fascination with the new medium of film, did American novelists attempt to apply cinematic methods in their own writings? From its very beginnings the cinema has played a special role in defining American culture. Covering the period from the 1910s up to the Second World War, Cinematic Fictions offers new insights into classics like The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath discussing major writers' critical writings on film and active participation in film-making. Cinematic Fictions is also careful not to portray 'cinema' as a single or stable entity. Some novelists drew on silent film; others looked to the Russian theorists for inspiration; and yet others turned to continental film-makers rather than to Hollywood. Film itself was constantly evolving during the first decades of the twentieth century and the writers discussed here engaged in a kind of dialogue with the new medium, selectively pursuing strategies of montage, limited point of view and scenic composition towards their different ends. Contrasting a diverse range of cinematic and literary movements, this will be compulsory reading for scholars of American literature and film.

The Italian American Table

Author : Simone Cinotto
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252095014
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Italian American Table written by Simone Cinotto and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Food Book of 2014 by The Atlantic Looking at the historic Italian American community of East Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, Simone Cinotto recreates the bustling world of Italian life in New York City and demonstrates how food was at the center of the lives of immigrants and their children. From generational conflicts resolved around the family table to a vibrant food-based economy of ethnic producers, importers, and restaurateurs, food was essential to the creation of an Italian American identity. Italian American foods offered not only sustenance but also powerful narratives of community and difference, tradition and innovation as immigrants made their way through a city divided by class conflict, ethnic hostility, and racialized inequalities. Drawing on a vast array of resources including fascinating, rarely explored primary documents and fresh approaches in the study of consumer culture, Cinotto argues that Italian immigrants created a distinctive culture of food as a symbolic response to the needs of immigrant life, from the struggle for personal and group identity to the pursuit of social and economic power. Adding a transnational dimension to the study of Italian American foodways, Cinotto recasts Italian American food culture as an American "invention" resonant with traces of tradition.

Haunch, Paunch and Jowel

Author : Samuel Ornitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Haunch, Paunch and Jowel written by Samuel Ornitz and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Labor's Text

Author : Laura Hapke
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813528809
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book Labor's Text written by Laura Hapke and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hapke's book, remarkable in scope and inclusiveness, offers those concerned with American working people a mine of information about and analysis of the 'rich lived history of American laborers' as that has been represented in fictions of every kind. She provides an invaluable foundation for understanding the dirtiest of America's dirty big secrets: the pervasivness of class differences, class discrimination, indeed of class conflict in this, the wealthiest nation in history. Hers is an indispensable guided tour through more than a century and a half of literary representations of 'hands' at their looms, pikets on the line, agitators on their soapboxes, ordinary working women, men, and children in kitchens, parks, factories, and fields across America." --Paul Lauter, A.K. & G.M. Smith Professor of Literature, Trinity College "Labor's Text sets over 150 years of the multi-ethnic literature of work in the context of the history that informed it--the history of labor organizing, of industrial change, of social transformations, and of shifting political alignments. Any scholar of American literature or American history cannot help but be enlightened by this boldly ambitious and illuminating book." -- Shelly Fisher Fishkin, professor of American studies, University of Texas, Austin "Labor's Text traverses nearly two centuries of the U.S. literary response in fiction to workers and the work experience. Casting her net more broadly than any of her predecessors, Hapke's revision of the genre includes many recent writing not usually recognized as part of the tradition. Coming at a moment when there is a steady increase in interest about 'class' from color- and gender-inflected perspectives, this is a work of committed scholarship that may well prove to be a crucial compass to reorient the thinking and scholarship of a new generation." -- Alan Wald, author of Writing from the Left "A stunning work of scholarship. . . . It is an extraordinary achievement and an immense contribution to working-class studies." --Janet Zandy, author of Calling Home: Working-Class Women's Writings Laura Hapke is a professor of English at Pace University. The winner of two Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Book awards, she is the author of Daughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930s and other books on labor fiction and working-class studies.

Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature

Author : Rachel Rubin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252025396
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature written by Rachel Rubin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hands of Jewish literary communists - themselves engaged in transgressing cultural boundaries - the figure of the Jewish gangster provides an occasion to craft a virile Jewish masculinity, to consider the role of vernacular in literature, to interrogate the place of art within a political economy, and to explore the fate of Jewishness in the "new worlds" of the United States and the Soviet Union."--BOOK JACKET.

Time

Author : Briton Hadden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Time written by Briton Hadden and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reels for 1973- include Time index, 1973-

Slippery Characters

Author : Laura Browder
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860603
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Slippery Characters written by Laura Browder and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-06-20 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree. While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls ethnic impersonator autobiographies are by no means singular. Over the past 150 years, a number of American authors have left behind unwanted identities by writing themselves into new ethnicities. Significantly, notes Browder, these ersatz autobiographies have tended to appear at flashpoints in American history: in the decades before the Civil War, when immigration laws and laws regarding Native Americans were changing in the 1920s, and during the civil rights era, for example. Examining the creation and reception of such works from the 1830s through the 1990s--against a background ranging from the abolition movement and Wild West shows to more recent controversies surrounding blackface performance and jazz music--Browder uncovers their surprising influence in shaping American notions of identity.