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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... idea of an English canon predates the eighteenth century , and that a version of canon - formation , one largely non - institutional and hence unfamiliar to us now , informed the production and reception of English literature well ...
... idea of an English canon predates the eighteenth century , and that a version of canon - formation , one largely non - institutional and hence unfamiliar to us now , informed the production and reception of English literature well ...
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... idea of " making . " For critics from antiquity to the Renaissance , from Aristotle to Jonson , poetry designated the “ skill , or Crafte of Making the habit , or the Art . " 14 Poetry is at once the activity and the ability of the ...
... idea of " making . " For critics from antiquity to the Renaissance , from Aristotle to Jonson , poetry designated the “ skill , or Crafte of Making the habit , or the Art . " 14 Poetry is at once the activity and the ability of the ...
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... idea to another in every chapter ... that the sen- tences slip through the reader's apprehension as quicksilver through the fingers . " Then again , these anthologies were neither prepared for easy consumption by a reader nor designed ...
... idea to another in every chapter ... that the sen- tences slip through the reader's apprehension as quicksilver through the fingers . " Then again , these anthologies were neither prepared for easy consumption by a reader nor designed ...
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... idea that reading or writing literary works may not necessarily empower you to accomplish anything in particular . My subject , in other words , is not aesthetic theory in early modern 14 The Making of the English Literary Canon.
... idea that reading or writing literary works may not necessarily empower you to accomplish anything in particular . My subject , in other words , is not aesthetic theory in early modern 14 The Making of the English Literary Canon.
Зміст
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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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