Books are not life but then what is? / / 'Marvin Mudrick ; with an new introduction by Jervey Tervalon ; cover illustration by Mike Solomon

• Autore: Mudrick Marvin
• Pubblicazione: Great Barrington, Massachusetts : , : Berkshire Publishing Group, , 2018; ©1979
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages)
• Disciplina: 809
• Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern - History and criticism
• Persona (resp. second.): TervalonJervey; SolomonMike
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Books are not life but then what is
• ISBN: 1-61472-886-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814824703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II