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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... interests and assumptions that defined and shaped the literary canon . An indigenous canon of letters , Ross argues , had been both the hope and the aim of English authors since the Middle Ages . Early authors believed that promoting ...
... interests and assumptions that defined and shaped the literary canon . An indigenous canon of letters , Ross argues , had been both the hope and the aim of English authors since the Middle Ages . Early authors believed that promoting ...
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... interests of the community . The poet is not a maker of commodities for an autonomous audience , or even a creator of autonomous works of art , but an agent of production working on behalf of established social relations . Certainly ...
... interests of the community . The poet is not a maker of commodities for an autonomous audience , or even a creator of autonomous works of art , but an agent of production working on behalf of established social relations . Certainly ...
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... interests . Readers , it seems , serve no productive function other than , potentially , the supreme function of contributing to human knowledge and of helping to overcome social divisions . Literature is valuable only insofar as it ...
... interests . Readers , it seems , serve no productive function other than , potentially , the supreme function of contributing to human knowledge and of helping to overcome social divisions . Literature is valuable only insofar as it ...
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... interests that have informed the making of the canon , and of the several functions that the canon has been made to serve . Since its approach is analytical and discursive , my narrative also considers a number of case histories ...
... interests that have informed the making of the canon , and of the several functions that the canon has been made to serve . Since its approach is analytical and discursive , my narrative also considers a number of case histories ...
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... interests that have impelled authors to propose a canon of English literature . Canons are , in Wendell V. Harris's phrase , " selections with purposes , " and these purposes can be quite numerous and varied : legitimizing the writing ...
... interests that have impelled authors to propose a canon of English literature . Canons are , in Wendell V. Harris's phrase , " selections with purposes , " and these purposes can be quite numerous and varied : legitimizing the writing ...
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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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Making of the English Literary Canon: From the Middle Ages to the Late ... Trevor Thornton Ross Обмежений попередній перегляд - 1998 |
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