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This thing we call literature /

"This Thing We Call Literature collects ten essays from the combative, cantakerous cultural critic Arthur Krystal. The essays in this compact volume, mostly coming from The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Chronicle of Higher Education--all share Krystal's conviction that literature and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krystal, Arthur (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
Literature, Modern.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Prélude.
  • 2. A Sad Road to Everything
  • 3. Easy Writers: Guilty Pleasures without the Guilt
  • 4. It's Genre. Not That There's Anything Wrong with It
  • 5. What is Literature?
  • 6. Should Writers Reply to Reviewers?
  • 7. LISTEN To The Sound It Makes
  • 8. Listing Toward Oblivion
  • 9. Erich Auerbach: The Critic in Exile
  • 10. "The Shrinking World of Ideas
  • Postscript.