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1 online resource (viii, 196 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Author's Note; Acknowledgements; 1. When Writers Speak; 2. Carpe Noctem: A Little Night Music; 3. Slang-Whanger: William Hazlitt's Impetuous Prose; 4. Too True: The Art of the Aphorism; 5. The Usual Suspect: Edgar Allan Poe, Consulting Detective; 6. A Man for All Reasons: Jacques Barzun; 7. En Garde! The Duel in History; 8. Some Remarks on the Pitfalls of Biography: Especially Where Writers are Concerned; 9. Slow Fade: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood; 10. The Worst of Times: Revisiting the Great Depression; 11. The Long Goodbye: The Sixties-In Pace Requiem. |
| Summary |
"I never think except when I sit down to write."--Attributed to Montaigne by Edgar Allan Poe From Montaigne in the sixteenth century to Orwell, Eliot, and Trilling in the twentieth, the best literary essayists combine a gift for observation with an abiding commitment to books. Although it may seem that books are becoming less essential and that a revolution in sensibility is taking place, the essays of Arthur Krystal suggest otherwise. Companionable without being chummy, engaged without being didactic, erudite without being stuffy, he demonstrates that literature, even in the digit. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Criticism.
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Criticism. |
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Literature and society.
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Literature and society. |
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Learning and scholarship.
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Learning and scholarship. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Krystal, Arthur. Except when I write. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011 9780199782406 (DLC) 2011016137 (OCoLC)681503794 |
| ISBN |
9780199782628 (electronic book) |
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0199782628 (electronic book) |
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9780199782406 |
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0199782407 |
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