A Mirror in the Roadway
Subtitle: Literature and the Real World
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: February 5, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780691130330
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Books & Reading; American Language and Literature; British Literature; Comparative Literature; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; General
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