RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Symposium: The Use of English in World Literatures: INTRODUCTION
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 297
OP 297
DO 10.17763/haer.34.2.b2154816jx045mp1
VO 34
IS 2
YR 1964
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/34/2/297.abstract
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.