This Thing We Call Literature
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780190272371
Subjects: Literature, modern, history and criticism, 20th century; Literature and society
Description: "This Thing We Call Literature collects ten essays from the combative, cantakerous 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"--