Assertion: literature | /r/CapableOf | progress in 12th to 17th centuries
Facets:
value: from a state of alienation
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: He presents this as a process of literature progressing from a state of alienation in the 12th to 17th centuries to one of reflective self-consciousness in the 18th century, and followed by a fall back into alienation in the 19th.