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003			OCoLC
005			20251028092043.0
008			040319s2002 gau b s001 0 eng
001			ocm48967798
010			_a 2002002105
020			_a0820324418 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020			_a0820324787 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035			_a(Sirsi) i9780820324418
035			_a(Sirsi) i9780820324418
035			_a(Sirsi) i9780820324418
035			_z(Sirsi) 130407
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dC#P _dKUT _dSYB _dVF$
043			_an-us---
050	0	0	_aPS 121 _b.K57 2002
090			_aPS 121 .K57 2002
100	1		_aKirby, David, _d1944-
245	1	0	_aWhat is a book? / _cDavid Kirby.
260			_aAthens : _bUniversity of Georgia Press, _cc2002.
300			_axvii, 221 p. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index.
505	0	0	_tWhat is a reader? -- _tWhat is a writer? -- _tBreakfast with the Cumaean sibyl, or, A poet's education -- _tDon't know much about history : sameness versus originality in poetry -- _tIs there a Southern poetry? -- _tPoet as pitchman : James Dickey, American poet -- _tEmerson, Poe, and American criticism in the nineteenth century -- _tSlouching toward Baltimore : twentieth-century literary criticism -- _tWhat is a critic? -- _tMr. Post-everything : the life and times of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -- _t"Thing you can't explain" : theory and the unconscious -- _tReviewers in the popular press and their impact on the novel -- _tM.L. Rosenthal and our life in poetry -- _tGhosts and gadabouts : gothic and picaresque in the American novel -- _tBorn in the marketplace : the emergence of the American novel -- _tIt isn't about America, it is America : Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn -- _tWhat is a book?
650		0	_aAmerican literature _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _xHistory and criticism _xTheory, etc.
650		0	_aBooks and reading _zUnited States.
650		0	_aBook reviewing _zUnited States.
650		0	_aCriticism _zUnited States.
999			_c92310 _d92310