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Agitations : Essays on Life and Literature by Krystal, Arthur is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Agitations : Essays on Life and Literature about?
We disagree. From small questions of taste to large questions concerning the nature of existence, intellectual debate takes up much of our time. In this book the respected literary critic Arthur Krystal examines what most commentators ignore: the role of temperament and taste in the forming of aesthetic and ideological opinions. In provocative essays about reading and writing, about the relation between life and literature, about knowledge and certainty, about God and death, and about his own gr
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Krystal, Arthur
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781282437609
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Reference, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.3 / 5 (10 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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