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Books are not life but then what is? / 'Marvin Mudrick ; with an new introduction by Jervey Tervalon ; cover illustration by Mike Solomon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mudrick, Marvin, author.
- Marvin Mudrick
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Great Barrington, Massachusetts : Berkshire Publishing Group, 2018.
- Contents:
- I. People: just like you and me
- The Emperor of China
- Su cosa mi cosa; or, Busy busy busy
- The offending member
- The entertainer
- I don't care what mama don't allow
- Pushkin in English
- The ugly duck
- Father knows best
- Portnoy's bachelor uncle
- Aged eagles and dirty old men
- Issues and answers: or, If you've tried it don't knock it
- The smell of martality
- II. Scholars: the soft recesses of uneasy minds
- The blind men and the elephant
- Stone-deaf theologians
- III. Operators: if they don't like it here why don't they go back where they came from?
- Adorable ideas and absent plenitudes
- Mad dogs and anglo shrinks
- A thrust in the hand is worth two in the bush
- IV. Books in bunches: the fox and the grapes
- Old pros with news from nowhere
- Fiction and truth
- V. Four ways of looking: books are not life but then what is?
- Chamber of horrors
- Good and proper (I)
- Good and proper (II)
- Mrs. Harris and the hend of all things.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Edition:
- Reproduction of: 0195025083 Mudrick, Marvin. New York : Oxford University Press, 1979
- ISBN:
- 1-61472-886-0
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