TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kirby,David
TI  - What is a book?
SN  - 0820324418 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - PS 121  .K57 2002
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Athens
PB  - University of Georgia Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - United States
KW  - Book reviewing
KW  - Criticism
N1  - 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?
ER  -