Mediating Criticism: Literary Education Humanized

by Roger D. Sell

In the twentieth century, literature was under threat. Not only was there the challenge of new forms of oral and visual culture. Even literary education and literary criticism could sometimes actually distance novels, poems and plays from their potential audience. This is the trend which Roger D. Sell now seeks to reverse. Arguing that literature can still be a significant and democratic channel of human interactivity, he sees the most helpful role...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027225834
• ISBN13: 9789027225832
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 431 Pages