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" Readings / "
Sven Birkerts
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BL
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696367
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b518556
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| Main Entry
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Birkerts, Sven
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| Title & Author
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Readings /\ Sven Birkerts
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| Publication Statement
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St. Paul, Minn. :: Graywolf Press,, [1999]
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, ©1999
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263 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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1555972837
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| Contents
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The millenial warp -- American nostalgias -- Sense and semblance : the implications of virtuality -- The idea of the Internet -- Walking after midnight -- Only god can make a tree -- Reflections of a nonpolitical man ; or, Why I can't in good conscience write about Noam Chomsky -- An open invitation to extraterrestrials -- Biography and the dissolving self -- The grasshopper on the windowsill -- States of reading -- Against the current -- Reading and depth of field -- Docufiction -- "Poetry" and "Politics" -- Running out of gas -- Second thoughts -- This year's canon -- When lightning strikes -- On a stanza by John Keats -- Rainer Maria Rilke -- Robert Lowell -- Seamus Heaney -- Atmospheres of identity : Elizabeth Bishop -- The leaning umbrella : a reflection on Flaubert -- A Gatsby for today -- Jack Kerouac -- Destinies of character -- Don DeLillo's Underworld
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| Subject
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Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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| Dewey Classification
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809/.04
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| LC Classification
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PN771.B475 1999
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