Introduction (Literature in the Modern World)
Publisher: Open University Worldwide
Published: 1991
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780749210359
Subjects: Literary studies: general
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.