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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... poets . The first is a frontispiece that appeared before two collections of John Skelton's verse from the late 1520s , Agaynste a Comely Coystrowne and Dyvers Balettys and Dyties Solacyous . The woodcut offers no reliable sense of the ...
... poets . The first is a frontispiece that appeared before two collections of John Skelton's verse from the late 1520s , Agaynste a Comely Coystrowne and Dyvers Balettys and Dyties Solacyous . The woodcut offers no reliable sense of the ...
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... poets by proving that English is a poetic , productive language , a source of verbal power . Even the didactic ... poets assert time and again in their own defence . Perhaps the most prevalent foundational myth of rhetorical culture ...
... poets by proving that English is a poetic , productive language , a source of verbal power . Even the didactic ... poets assert time and again in their own defence . Perhaps the most prevalent foundational myth of rhetorical culture ...
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... poets eager to legitimize their practice , to lend aura to their tradition , and to affirm the power of their art in preserving a sense of the past . Poetry's memorializing and mnemonic functions make it the preemi- nent vehicle of fame ...
... poets eager to legitimize their practice , to lend aura to their tradition , and to affirm the power of their art in preserving a sense of the past . Poetry's memorializing and mnemonic functions make it the preemi- nent vehicle of fame ...
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... poets negotiate with their patrons , since poets routinely feel com- pelled to assert their art's time - defying authority as energetically as they memorialize the exploits of their patrons . Ideally in a rhetorical culture , poet and ...
... poets negotiate with their patrons , since poets routinely feel com- pelled to assert their art's time - defying authority as energetically as they memorialize the exploits of their patrons . Ideally in a rhetorical culture , poet and ...
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... poets and patrons , there is equally a tension between poets and their traditions , a tension that may express itself as an anxiety of influence but , more importantly in this context , as a conflict of interest between the individual ...
... poets and patrons , there is equally a tension between poets and their traditions , a tension that may express itself as an anxiety of influence but , more importantly in this context , as a conflict of interest between the individual ...
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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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