This Thing We Call Literature
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 April 2016
- ISBN 9780190272371
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages152 pages
- Size 211x142x20 mm
- Weight 240 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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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.
I picked this book for reasons that are fairly obvious, and it actually didn't come out this year. It came out in 2016, and it's a collection of essays called This Thing We Call Literature by Arthur Krystal. He's a book reviewer and literary critic, and I read something he wrote early on this year and was so blown away by it that I had to go buy the book. He's a really clear, simple, direct writer. In this time, in the Trump era, where there's a backlash against postmodernism and there are these culture wars and conflicts, especially concerning academia, Krystal's book is really a defense of the canon, or at least, a defense of the idea that we should be arguing for the value of a canon. He has such a measured, enjoyable tone."--Rider Strong via "Literary Disco's Best Books We Read [in 2018]
Table of Contents:
Author's Note
1. Prélude.
2. A Sad Road to Everything
3. Easy Writers: Guilty Pleasures without the Guilt
4. It's Genre. Not That There's Anything Wrong with It
5. What is Literature?
6. Should Writers Reply to Reviewers?
7. LISTEN To The Sound It Makes
8. Listing Toward Oblivion
9. Erich Auerbach: The Critic in Exile
10. The Shrinking World of Ideas
Postscript
