02272nam 2200409 450 991081482470332120230814220314.01-61472-886-0(CKB)4940000000149462(MiAaPQ)EBC5987851(EXLCZ)99494000000014946220191225h20181979 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBooks are not life but then what is? /'Marvin Mudrick ; with an new introduction by Jervey Tervalon ; cover illustration by Mike SolomonGreat Barrington, Massachusetts :Berkshire Publishing Group,2018.©19791 online resource (xii, 260 pages)1-61472-027-4 Includes bibliographical references.I. People: just like you and me -- The Emperor of China -- Su cosa mi cosa; or, Busy busy busy -- The offending member -- The entertainer -- I don't care what mama don't allow -- Pushkin in English -- The ugly duck -- Father knows best -- Portnoy's bachelor uncle -- Aged eagles and dirty old men -- Issues and answers: or, If you've tried it don't knock it -- The smell of martality -- II. Scholars: the soft recesses of uneasy minds -- The blind men and the elephant -- Stone-deaf theologians -- III. Operators: if they don't like it here why don't they go back where they came from? -- Adorable ideas and absent plenitudes -- Mad dogs and anglo shrinks -- A thrust in the hand is worth two in the bush -- IV. Books in bunches: the fox and the grapes -- Old pros with news from nowhere -- Fiction and truth -- V. Four ways of looking: books are not life but then what is? -- Chamber of horrors -- Good and proper (I) -- Good and proper (II) -- Mrs. Harris and the hend of all things.Literature, ModernHistory and criticismLiterature, ModernHistory and criticism.809Mudrick Marvin132400Tervalon JerveySolomon MikeMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814824703321Books are not life but then what is3985305UNINA