Making of the English Literary Canon: From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth CenturyMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 20 mei 1998 - 411 pagina's 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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... appears to be another book or a pen , and is seated at a large cathedra structure , in the manner of Virgil and other subjects of early literary portraiture . ' Such symbolism would have pleased the original Skelton , who was widely ...
... appears to be another book or a pen , and is seated at a large cathedra structure , in the manner of Virgil and other subjects of early literary portraiture . ' Such symbolism would have pleased the original Skelton , who was widely ...
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... appear , as early writers often make identical claims about divergent works or conflicting prescriptive standards , though these inconsistencies are not terribly disquieting in a rhetorical culture where the contingency of verbal power ...
... appear , as early writers often make identical claims about divergent works or conflicting prescriptive standards , though these inconsistencies are not terribly disquieting in a rhetorical culture where the contingency of verbal power ...
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... appear widely circulating since consumption , the acquisition of knowledge , is prized above production.26 The literary system of readers and their texts is made to seem depoliticized and " disinterested " because readers are considered ...
... appear widely circulating since consumption , the acquisition of knowledge , is prized above production.26 The literary system of readers and their texts is made to seem depoliticized and " disinterested " because readers are considered ...
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... appear in English critical discourse in the mid- eighteenth century . A hierarchical canon , rather than symbolizing the uniformity of human nature , holds out the promise of achieving universality through a constant striving towards ...
... appear in English critical discourse in the mid- eighteenth century . A hierarchical canon , rather than symbolizing the uniformity of human nature , holds out the promise of achieving universality through a constant striving towards ...
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... appearing to be purely devoted to one's art.4 ) Canon - making I would suggest , frequently served the self - defining gestures of English writers eager to promote a literary system in England . Yet , as much as these authors were keen ...
... appearing to be purely devoted to one's art.4 ) Canon - making I would suggest , frequently served the self - defining gestures of English writers eager to promote a literary system in England . Yet , as much as these authors were keen ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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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Making of the English Literary Canon: From the Middle Ages to the Late ... Trevor Thornton Ross Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1998 |
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