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Agitations : essays on life and literature /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2002]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.