A Mirror in the Roadway
Subtitle: Literature and the Real World
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: April 18, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780691119960
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature, Modern; History and criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Books & Reading; American Language and Literature; British Literature; Comparative Literature; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; General; 20th century
First sentence: ONCE THERE WAS a common assumption that along with everything else that gave meaning to literature-the mastery of language and form, the personality of the author, the moral authority, the degree of originality, the reactions of the reader-hardly anything