Volume 26, Number 11 · June 28, 1979
Lit in Trouble
By Irvin Ehrenpreis
Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society
by Gerald Graff
University of Chicago Press, 260 pp., $15.00
Celestial Pantomime: Poetic Structures of Transcendence
by Justus George Lawler
Yale University Press, 270 pp., $18.95
In colleges and universities today, the study of literature is a troubled discipline. Undergraduates drawn to it press into courses dealing with the twentieth century. The competition of other kinds of entertainment has narrowed their experience, and the diversified curricula of their high schools have not supplemented the meager diet of recent novels that constitute imaginative literature for them.
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