This thing we call literature / Arthur Krystal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krystal, Arthur, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Literature, Modern.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

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:

COVER; THIS THING WE CALL LITERATURE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; AUTHOR'S NOTE; 1: What Is Literature?; 2: Prélude: Of Resistance and Celebration; 3: Should Writers Reply to Reviewers?; 4: Easy Writers: Guilty Pleasures without the Guilt; 5: It's Genre. Not That There's Anything Wrong With It; 6: Listing Toward Oblivion; 7: "Listen to the sound it makes"; 8: A Sad Road toEverything; 9: Erich Auerbach: The Critic in Exile; 10: The Shrinking World of Ideas; Postscript; NOTES; 1. What Is Literature?; 2. Prélude; 9. Erich Auerbach: The Critic in Exile; 10. The Shrinking World of Ideas

PostscriptCREDITS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-027239-2

0-19-027238-4

OCLC:

936040718