This Thing We Call Literature

This Thing We Call Literature
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 153
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ISBN-10 : 9780190272371
ISBN-13 : 0190272376
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Book Synopsis This Thing We Call Literature by : Arthur Krystal

Download or read book This Thing We Call Literature written by Arthur Krystal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Thing We Call Literature collects ten essays from the combative, cantankerous 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"


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