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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... meaning in what is said . " 12 By analogy , when early English writers want to praise a work , they merely assert its value . They make claims for it , often with reference to a standard derived from classical rhetoric such as ...
... meaning in what is said . " 12 By analogy , when early English writers want to praise a work , they merely assert its value . They make claims for it , often with reference to a standard derived from classical rhetoric such as ...
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... meaning and to appreciate the value of cultural goods and relations . In an objectivist culture , canonical texts are treated as a sort of code which can be fully deciphered only by those who are recognized to possess the necessary ...
... meaning and to appreciate the value of cultural goods and relations . In an objectivist culture , canonical texts are treated as a sort of code which can be fully deciphered only by those who are recognized to possess the necessary ...
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... meaning is subject to continual reinterpretation . Historicist inquiries , such as philology , biography , and ... meanings and horizons of earlier cultures . The assumption in either case is that knowledge , however lengthy the process ...
... meaning is subject to continual reinterpretation . Historicist inquiries , such as philology , biography , and ... meanings and horizons of earlier cultures . The assumption in either case is that knowledge , however lengthy the process ...
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... meaning develops from the need among professional critics and educators to justify their supervision of reading practices . Within a rhetorical culture , the meaning of a work was thought to be more or less fixed yet open to ...
... meaning develops from the need among professional critics and educators to justify their supervision of reading practices . Within a rhetorical culture , the meaning of a work was thought to be more or less fixed yet open to ...
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... meaning , language , culture of origin , and even values . These imaginary packagings may shroud works in a mystificatory aura , but they remain no more than packages.3 So arbitrary are canons that they encourage two contrasting ways of ...
... meaning , language , culture of origin , and even values . These imaginary packagings may shroud works in a mystificatory aura , but they remain no more than packages.3 So arbitrary are canons that they encourage two contrasting ways of ...
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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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