Program

Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education Faculty

Period of Performance

1/1/1978 - 9/30/1978

Funding Totals

$46,098.00 (approved)
$46,098.00 (awarded)


Contemporary Theories of Literature and Society

FAIN: FS-10778-78

Jeffrey L. Sammons
Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)

To critically examine modern positions m literary sociology and Marxist literary theory. It will discuss the "kinds of problems these approaches try to solve and the terms of the debate between the two methods. The possibilities of comparability with traditional Anglo-American literary criticism will also be suggested.