PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE ED - Harvard Educational Press TI - Symposium: The Use of English in World Literatures: INTRODUCTION AID - 10.17763/haer.34.2.b2154816jx045mp1 DP - 1964 Jul 01 TA - Harvard Educational Review PG - 297--297 VI - 34 IP - 2 4099 - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/34/2/297.short 4100 - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/34/2/297.full SO - herp1964 Jul 01; 34 AB - To ask what is English literature is to ask, in part, what literature is written in English. As late as twenty-five years ago, an adequate answer to both forms of the question was "The sum of writings that make up the British-American tradition." Now the same answer would be regarded as partial and parochial.