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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... society , highlighting the diverse interests and assumptions that defined and shaped the literary canon . An indigenous canon of letters , Ross argues , had been both the hope and the aim of English authors since the Middle Ages . Early ...
... society , highlighting the diverse interests and assumptions that defined and shaped the literary canon . An indigenous canon of letters , Ross argues , had been both the hope and the aim of English authors since the Middle Ages . Early ...
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... society is itself the offspring of the poets and orators . In Cicero's much - cited version , no other force approaches the power of poetic eloquence in helping " to gather scattered humanity into one place , or to lead it out of its ...
... society is itself the offspring of the poets and orators . In Cicero's much - cited version , no other force approaches the power of poetic eloquence in helping " to gather scattered humanity into one place , or to lead it out of its ...
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... society depends on the capacity and willingness of readers to engage in such efforts , as well as on the work of critical and pedagogical authorities to encourage readers into making such efforts . To borrow one of Pierre Bourdieu's key ...
... society depends on the capacity and willingness of readers to engage in such efforts , as well as on the work of critical and pedagogical authorities to encourage readers into making such efforts . To borrow one of Pierre Bourdieu's key ...
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... society than with how particular conventions , styles , or genres may have become dominant at different periods . Moreover , the notion of " taste , " I suggest , can be applied to literary evaluation before the eighteenth century only ...
... society than with how particular conventions , styles , or genres may have become dominant at different periods . Moreover , the notion of " taste , " I suggest , can be applied to literary evaluation before the eighteenth century only ...
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... society have varied considerably , many have espoused a version of disinterestedness in order to make their practice seem distinctive and their assertions credible . And although the ideals of disinterestedness and aesthetic autonomy ...
... society have varied considerably , many have espoused a version of disinterestedness in order to make their practice seem distinctive and their assertions credible . And although the ideals of disinterestedness and aesthetic autonomy ...
Зміст
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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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