Literature : its opponents and its power / Arthur Trace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trace, Arther S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

vii, 146 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [1997]

Contents:

Chapter I The Triumph of Science Over the Imagination 1

Chapter II Modern Critical Theory and the Trivializing of Literature 19

Chapter III Phasing Out Literature in American Education 47

Chapter IV Literature Versus the Electronic Age 65

Chapter V The Power of Literature 77

Chapter VI Can Literature Survive? 105

Appendix Literary Declarations: A representative gathering of statements concerning the nature and purpose of literature from Plato to the present 119.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0761805893

OCLC:

35657889