MARC details
| 000 -LEADER |
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02853cam a22003738i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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| control field |
22104458 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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JGU |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20240214134826.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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| fixed length control field |
210628s2021 nju b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2021026491 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780691177304 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardback ; |
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acid-free paper) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PN45 |
| Item number |
.W357 2021 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Weinstein, Arnold |
| 9 (RLIN) |
419161 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Lives of literature : |
| Remainder of title |
reading, teaching, knowing / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Arnold Weinstein |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
UK : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Princeton University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2021 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"Mixing passion and humor, a personal work of literary criticism that demonstrates the power of our greatest books to illuminate our lives. Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us intimate access to an astonishing variety of other lives, experiences, and places across the ages. Reflecting on a lifetime of reading, teaching, and writing, The Lives of Literature explores, with passion, humor, and whirring intellect, a professor's life, the thrills and traps of teaching, and, most of all, the power of literature to lead us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and the worlds we inhabit. As an identical twin, Weinstein experienced early the dislocation of being mistaken for another person--and of feeling that he might be someone other than he had thought. In vivid readings elucidating the classics of authors ranging from Sophocles to James Joyce and Toni Morrison, he explores what we learn by identifying with their protagonists, including those who, undone by wreckage and loss, discover that all their beliefs are illusions. Weinstein masterfully argues that literature's knowing differs entirely from what one ends up knowing when studying mathematics or physics or even history: by entering these characters' lives, readers acquire a unique form of knowledge--and come to understand its cost. In The Lives of Literature, a master writer and teacher shares his love of the books that he has taught and been taught by, showing us that literature matters most because we never stop discovering who we are"-- |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Weinstein, Arnold |
| General subdivision |
Books and reading. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1635469 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Literature |
| General subdivision |
Philosophy. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Characters and characteristics in literature. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
103251 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Self in literature. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
35810 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Best books. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
370927 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
LITERARY CRITICISM / General |
| Source of heading or term |
bisacsh |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2442 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory |
| Source of heading or term |
bisacsh |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Literary criticism. |
| 263 ## - PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE |
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| Projected publication date |
2111 |
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7 |
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cbc |
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1 |
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ecip |
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20 |
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