The Mainstream and the Margins Trade Places: The Mainstream as a “Runaway” Concept of Literary Criticism
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Joanna Orska
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This article discusses the concept of the “mainstream” in relation to the old concepts of the canon and the opinion-forming center, as terms which have gradually replaced the more traditional and institutionally justified premises of literary criticism in the public debate. (...)