| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 189 pages) |
| Contents |
Closing the books : a devoted reader arrives at the end of the story -- H.C. Witwer and me : the making of a reader -- Stop the presses : a petition for less writing -- What do you know? What don't you know? -- Death, it's what ails you -- Why smart people believe in God -- Taste, too, is an art -- Rule of temperament -- Art and craft -- Certitudes -- What happened? The rise and fall of theory -- How we write when we write about writing -- Looking for a good argument : argument and the novel -- Just imagine : three hundred years of the creative imagination -- Going, going, gone : the place of poetry in American letters -- Writing life |
| Summary |
"We disagree. From small questions of taste to large questions concerning the nature of existence, intellectual debate takes up much of our time. In this book the respected literary critic Arthur Krystal examines what most commentators ignore: the role of temperament and taste in the forming of aesthetic and ideological opinions. In provocative essays about reading and writing, about the relation between life and literature, about knowledge and certainty, about God and death, and about his own gradual disaffection with the literary scene, Krystal demonstrates that opposing points of view are based more on innate predilections than on disinterested thought or analysis."-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Arthur Krystal is the author of numerous essays and book reviews and the editor of A Company of Readers: Uncollected Writings of W. H. Auden, Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling and Jacques Barzun's The Culture We Deserve |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Books and reading.
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Literature and society.
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Learning and scholarship.
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Civilization, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy
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Society in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
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Society in literature
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Books and reading
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Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy
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Learning and scholarship
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Literature and society
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Libraries and Museums.
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| Genre/Form |
essays.
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Essays
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Essays.
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Essais.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2002016753 |
| ISBN |
9780300145601 |
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0300145608 |
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1282437607 |
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9781282437609 |
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9786612437601 |
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661243760X |
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