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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... effects on individual listeners or readers . Rather , these effects are benefits to the community at large . Consumption , in effect , is not readily distinguished from production . The culture , the totality of poet and audience , is ...
... effects on individual listeners or readers . Rather , these effects are benefits to the community at large . Consumption , in effect , is not readily distinguished from production . The culture , the totality of poet and audience , is ...
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... effect , and they are often advanced by authors eager to call attention to their profession . Above all , canons are wholly arbitrary as syntactical units . Curtius , in his pioneering discussion of the subject , suggests that the ...
... effect , and they are often advanced by authors eager to call attention to their profession . Above all , canons are wholly arbitrary as syntactical units . Curtius , in his pioneering discussion of the subject , suggests that the ...
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... effect any revision of the auctorial system . The pervasive ideology of auctoritas related all human activity to a world - historical order explicable only in the terms set out in the authoritative books , and self - conscious writers ...
... effect any revision of the auctorial system . The pervasive ideology of auctoritas related all human activity to a world - historical order explicable only in the terms set out in the authoritative books , and self - conscious writers ...
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... effect of fixing evaluative criteria in accordance with established models and conventions . This made it impossible to think that works in different genres might be of equal worth and deserving of equal praise ; that is to say , the ...
... effect of fixing evaluative criteria in accordance with established models and conventions . This made it impossible to think that works in different genres might be of equal worth and deserving of equal praise ; that is to say , the ...
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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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