Making of the English Literary Canon: From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth CenturyMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 20 трав. 1998 р. - 411 стор. An indigenous canon of letters, Ross argues, had been both the hope and aim of English authors since the Middle Ages. Early authors believed that promoting the idea of a national literature would help publicize their work and favour literary production in the vernacular. Ross places these early gestures toward canon-making in the context of the highly rhetorical habits of thought that dominated medieval and Renaissance culture, habits that were gradually displaced by an emergent rationalist understanding of literary value. He shows that, beginning in the late seventeenth century, canon-makers became less concerned with how English literature was produced than with how it was read and received. |
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... attempt to explain the change he is describing , yet such an explanation can be derived from something Frye says in his preceding paragraph . Defend- ing the study of the humanities , Frye writes that it is " the consumer , not the ...
... attempt to explain the change he is describing , yet such an explanation can be derived from something Frye says in his preceding paragraph . Defend- ing the study of the humanities , Frye writes that it is " the consumer , not the ...
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... attempts by professional authors to declare their relative independence from powerful political and eco- nomic ... attempted to demonstrate their competence by searching for " latent beauties " within canonical English writings , beau ...
... attempts by professional authors to declare their relative independence from powerful political and eco- nomic ... attempted to demonstrate their competence by searching for " latent beauties " within canonical English writings , beau ...
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... attempting to indicate precisely when the English began to think highly of their literature , I hope that I have provided some sense of the lengthy and complicated changes in the way English literature was valued , from the earliest ...
... attempting to indicate precisely when the English began to think highly of their literature , I hope that I have provided some sense of the lengthy and complicated changes in the way English literature was valued , from the earliest ...
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... attempt by Church authorities to distinguish " authentic " Scripture from competing canons that mixed scriptural writings with apocrypha ; as McKeon notes , the " Greek word ' heresy ' is derived from election or selection : everyone ...
... attempt by Church authorities to distinguish " authentic " Scripture from competing canons that mixed scriptural writings with apocrypha ; as McKeon notes , the " Greek word ' heresy ' is derived from election or selection : everyone ...
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... attempted to compose religious poems , but none could compare with him . " 13 Caedmon's defining tradition , his true source of value , is not an indigenous poetic culture but a religious commu- nity , an ecclesiastically unified ...
... attempted to compose religious poems , but none could compare with him . " 13 Caedmon's defining tradition , his true source of value , is not an indigenous poetic culture but a religious commu- nity , an ecclesiastically unified ...
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CONSEQUENCES OF PRESENTISM | 85 |
DEFINING A CULTURAL FIELD | 145 |
CONSUMPTION AND CANONICHIERARCHY | 207 |
How Poesy Became Literature | 293 |
Notes | 303 |
Index | 383 |
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