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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... later frontispiece yet implicit in the conventionality of the earlier woodcut . Above all , for my purposes , both images would be unthink- able or risible within an English culture that did not already think highly of its own ...
... later frontispiece yet implicit in the conventionality of the earlier woodcut . Above all , for my purposes , both images would be unthink- able or risible within an English culture that did not already think highly of its own ...
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... later épisteme of the rationalist human sciences , and , for some who lived through it , as the triumph of the moderns over the ancients . In the terms I wish to borrow here , the change is one more round in the age - old quarrel ...
... later épisteme of the rationalist human sciences , and , for some who lived through it , as the triumph of the moderns over the ancients . In the terms I wish to borrow here , the change is one more round in the age - old quarrel ...
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... later eighteenth century , there was the rhetorical category of " poetry " or " poesy , ” a term that had at its root an idea of " making . " For critics from antiquity to the Renaissance , from Aristotle to Jonson , poetry designated ...
... later eighteenth century , there was the rhetorical category of " poetry " or " poesy , ” a term that had at its root an idea of " making . " For critics from antiquity to the Renaissance , from Aristotle to Jonson , poetry designated ...
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... later antholo- gists , these textbooks seemed shockingly arbitrary and appallingly short on editorial apparatus . Exclaimed one eighteenth - century editor , looking over an early miscellany , " There is ... so abrupt and sudden a hurry ...
... later antholo- gists , these textbooks seemed shockingly arbitrary and appallingly short on editorial apparatus . Exclaimed one eighteenth - century editor , looking over an early miscellany , " There is ... so abrupt and sudden a hurry ...
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... later verse . These historic signposts have been largely ignored in this study , in part because they have been thoroughly discussed elsewhere , and in part because they are only broadly related to the multiple contingencies and ...
... later verse . These historic signposts have been largely ignored in this study , in part because they have been thoroughly discussed elsewhere , and in part because they are only broadly related to the multiple contingencies and ...
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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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