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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... past , The Making of the English Literary Canon is relevant not only to current debates over the canon but also as an important corrective to prevailing views of early modern English literature and of how it was first evaluated ...
... past , The Making of the English Literary Canon is relevant not only to current debates over the canon but also as an important corrective to prevailing views of early modern English literature and of how it was first evaluated ...
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... past , and of preserving that literature in the hope of maintaining the culture that helped to produce it . This process , a complicated one and one that has received intense scrutiny of late , can be rightly said to have begun , in ...
... past , and of preserving that literature in the hope of maintaining the culture that helped to produce it . This process , a complicated one and one that has received intense scrutiny of late , can be rightly said to have begun , in ...
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... past as an eloquent tool for the aspiring courtier who wished to get ahead , make friends , and make love . At his disposal were a multiplicity of compositional aids , from the several " artes " of poetry that were thinly disguised ...
... past as an eloquent tool for the aspiring courtier who wished to get ahead , make friends , and make love . At his disposal were a multiplicity of compositional aids , from the several " artes " of poetry that were thinly disguised ...
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... past was informed by a restrictive presentism , modern objectivist theories of value are restricted by an intense localism in their dual emphases on self - formation and the autonomy of aesthetic experience . But my narrative ends ...
... past was informed by a restrictive presentism , modern objectivist theories of value are restricted by an intense localism in their dual emphases on self - formation and the autonomy of aesthetic experience . But my narrative ends ...
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... past decade.35 Though this study does not deal directly with current controversies , it offers an implicit critique of how these debates often sorely lack historical perspective on the issues they address . Many of these issues have ...
... past decade.35 Though this study does not deal directly with current controversies , it offers an implicit critique of how these debates often sorely lack historical perspective on the issues they address . Many of these issues have ...
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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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