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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... poetry . In the later image , the seated Smart , though canonized for his poetry in our century , derives whatever authority he may possess from the canonic masters before him . For Smart in this image is probably not writing verse , as ...
... poetry . In the later image , the seated Smart , though canonized for his poetry in our century , derives whatever authority he may possess from the canonic masters before him . For Smart in this image is probably not writing verse , as ...
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... 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 the “ skill , or Crafte of Making the habit , or the Art . " 14 ...
... 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 the “ skill , or Crafte of Making the habit , or the Art . " 14 ...
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... poetry is tied to the particular needs of the poet . Rather , the social function and truth - value of poetry are defined in terms of utility and instrumentality . Thus , the immortality topos , until recently the prime operative trope ...
... poetry is tied to the particular needs of the poet . Rather , the social function and truth - value of poetry are defined in terms of utility and instrumentality . Thus , the immortality topos , until recently the prime operative trope ...
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... poetry , its indispensability in centuries 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 ...
... poetry , its indispensability in centuries 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 ...
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... Poetry ; Poetry in general is improv'd from the Writings of Chaucer , Spencer , and others ; Dramatick Entertainments perfected by Shakespear , our Lan- guage and Poetry refin'd by Dryden ; the Passions rais'd by Otway ; the Inclination ...
... Poetry ; Poetry in general is improv'd from the Writings of Chaucer , Spencer , and others ; Dramatick Entertainments perfected by Shakespear , our Lan- guage and Poetry refin'd by Dryden ; the Passions rais'd by Otway ; the Inclination ...
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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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