Literature has passed through a crisis of confidence in recent decades--a radical questioning of its traditional values and its importance to humanity. In this witty and eloquent book, a distinguished professor of humanities looks at some of the agents that have contributed to...
A distinguished writer and scholar explores literature's "crisis of confidence". Writing in anecdotal and witty style, Kernan relates the death of literature to a variety of agents and ponders whether literature's vitality can be restored in the changing circumstances of late...