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Informationen zum Autor DAVID KIRBY is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. He is the author of many books of poetry and criticism, including The Ha-Ha , My Twentieth Century , and What Is a Book? (Georgia). His poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in the New York Times Book Review , Southern Review , Paris Review , and other publications. Zusammenfassung David Kirby poses a simple question: What makes a cultural phenomenon truly great? Exploring a wide variety of "king-sized cultural monuments," Kirby argues that one qualification for greatness is that a phenomenon be embraced by both the elite and the general public.

Product details

• Authors: David Kirby
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2007
• EAN: 9780820329093
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2909-3
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries