Literature in the Modern World
Subtitle: Critical Essays and Documents
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 17, 1991
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780198711148
First sentence: The main purpose of this section is to establish the origin and nature of the debate about what constitutes the subject of literary studies in English today it also provides a model for the sections which follow, setting up a position which is then debated, explicitly or implicitly, by the extracts that follow-the whole section anticipating later sections and debates.