What is a book? /
Kirby, David, 1944-
What is a book? / David Kirby. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2002. - xvii, 221 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index.
What is a reader? -- What is a writer? -- Breakfast with the Cumaean sibyl, or, A poet's education -- Don't know much about history : sameness versus originality in poetry -- Is there a Southern poetry? -- Poet as pitchman : James Dickey, American poet -- Emerson, Poe, and American criticism in the nineteenth century -- Slouching toward Baltimore : twentieth-century literary criticism -- What is a critic? -- Mr. Post-everything : the life and times of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -- "Thing you can't explain" : theory and the unconscious -- Reviewers in the popular press and their impact on the novel -- M.L. Rosenthal and our life in poetry -- Ghosts and gadabouts : gothic and picaresque in the American novel -- Born in the marketplace : the emergence of the American novel -- It isn't about America, it is America : Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn -- What is a book?
0820324418 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0820324787 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2002002105
American literature--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Books and reading--United States.
Book reviewing--United States.
Criticism--United States.
PS 121 / .K57 2002
What is a book? / David Kirby. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2002. - xvii, 221 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index.
What is a reader? -- What is a writer? -- Breakfast with the Cumaean sibyl, or, A poet's education -- Don't know much about history : sameness versus originality in poetry -- Is there a Southern poetry? -- Poet as pitchman : James Dickey, American poet -- Emerson, Poe, and American criticism in the nineteenth century -- Slouching toward Baltimore : twentieth-century literary criticism -- What is a critic? -- Mr. Post-everything : the life and times of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -- "Thing you can't explain" : theory and the unconscious -- Reviewers in the popular press and their impact on the novel -- M.L. Rosenthal and our life in poetry -- Ghosts and gadabouts : gothic and picaresque in the American novel -- Born in the marketplace : the emergence of the American novel -- It isn't about America, it is America : Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn -- What is a book?
0820324418 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0820324787 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2002002105
American literature--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Books and reading--United States.
Book reviewing--United States.
Criticism--United States.
PS 121 / .K57 2002