This thing we call literature / Arthur Krystal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krystal, Arthur, author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature and society.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 136 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"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 the humanities more broadly are going down the tubes"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780190272371

0190272376

OCLC:

927363763