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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780190272371 (hbk) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780190272395 (epub) |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language |
English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Edition number |
23 |
| Classification number |
809 |
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KRY |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Krystal, Arthur, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
This Thing We Call Literature / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Arthur Krystal. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York, NY : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
©2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 136 pages : |
| Other physical details |
illustration (frontispiece) ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Title |
1. What is literature? |
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2. Prélude- Of resistance and celebration |
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3. Should writers reply to reviewers? |
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4. Easy writers: guilty pleasures without the guilt |
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5. It's genre. Not that there's anything wrong with it |
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6. Listing toward oblivion |
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7. "LISTEN to the sound it makes" |
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8. A sad road to everything |
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9. Erich Auerbach: the critic in exile |
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10. The shrinking world of ideas |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"In his fourth book of essays, acclaimed cultural critic Arthur Krystal surveys the world of letters in its academic, literary, and populist incarnations--just to make sure those divisions still apply. What he finds is that the ground has shifted. With Lionel Trilling at his back, Krystal casts a cold eye on contemporary culture and discerns a lack of discrimination between the truly great and the merely good, and the fairly good and just plain bad. Critical but not angst-ridden, he deplores tunnel vision on both sides of the culture wars. Presumptive cultural boundaries have no place here. Krystal admires Bob Dylan and Elmore Leonard without including them in a purely literary pantheon. He endorses the Great Books without necessarily voting the Republican ticket. In essays about the meaning of the novel, the role of music in poetry, genre fiction vs. literary fiction, the contributions of the superlative critic Erich Auerbach, and the strange alliance of neurology and aesthetics, as well as in lighter pieces about reviewing and list-making, Krystal brings his own brand of discriminating intelligence to a spectrum of received opinions whose flaws and cracks otherwise go unnoticed"--Provided by publisher. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Literature, Modern |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Literature and society |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
General Books |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Relator term |
author. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-136). |
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| Chronological subdivision |
20th century |
| Form subdivision |
Essays |
