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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... author's works , such as Shakespeare's ; case studies of seminal events in the formation of English literature , such ... authors ' own statements on previous English writers , on norms of literary value , and on the canonical status of ...
... author's works , such as Shakespeare's ; case studies of seminal events in the formation of English literature , such ... authors ' own statements on previous English writers , on norms of literary value , and on the canonical status of ...
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... authors ' self - advertisements , modes of dissemination and publication , censorship and the dispersal of library collections , the teaching of literature , authors ' attitudes toward their audiences , the editing of older works ...
... authors ' self - advertisements , modes of dissemination and publication , censorship and the dispersal of library collections , the teaching of literature , authors ' attitudes toward their audiences , the editing of older works ...
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... authors from early on . Yet , just as prevailing con- cepts of canonicity have been redefined as a result of the shift in critical emphasis from production to consumption , so the canon has been the subject of continual revision and ...
... authors from early on . Yet , just as prevailing con- cepts of canonicity have been redefined as a result of the shift in critical emphasis from production to consumption , so the canon has been the subject of continual revision and ...
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... authors to declare their relative independence from powerful political and eco- nomic interests . The gradual autonomization of the cultural field , cer- tified by the objectivist separation of spheres of human activity , was thus in ...
... authors to declare their relative independence from powerful political and eco- nomic interests . The gradual autonomization of the cultural field , cer- tified by the objectivist separation of spheres of human activity , was thus in ...
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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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