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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... Catalogues of Leland and Bale 51 Evaluative Communities and Print Audiences 64 PART TWO PRESENTISM CONSEQUENCES OF 85 Albion's Parnassus and the Professional Author 87 Promoting the Literary System : Classicism and the Problem of ...
... Catalogues of Leland and Bale 51 Evaluative Communities and Print Audiences 64 PART TWO PRESENTISM CONSEQUENCES OF 85 Albion's Parnassus and the Professional Author 87 Promoting the Literary System : Classicism and the Problem of ...
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... catalogue is also typical in the way it projects ultimate evaluative authority onto a rhetorical fiction , in this case the " impartial reader . ” The narrow prescriptions of the earliest professional critics – Rymer , Dennis , Gildon ...
... catalogue is also typical in the way it projects ultimate evaluative authority onto a rhetorical fiction , in this case the " impartial reader . ” The narrow prescriptions of the earliest professional critics – Rymer , Dennis , Gildon ...
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... catalogues of John Leland and John Bale , the heightened national self - consciousness that followed in the immediate aftermath of the English Reformation did not stop people from destroying thousands of rare English manuscripts . As ...
... catalogues of John Leland and John Bale , the heightened national self - consciousness that followed in the immediate aftermath of the English Reformation did not stop people from destroying thousands of rare English manuscripts . As ...
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... catalogue of authors and not a rule or measure . It may therefore be useful to consider literary canons as lists as much as standards of excellence . Among the earliest forms of writing , lists are the simplest of texts , held together ...
... catalogue of authors and not a rule or measure . It may therefore be useful to consider literary canons as lists as much as standards of excellence . Among the earliest forms of writing , lists are the simplest of texts , held together ...
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... catalogue - making . In this way , a literary canon may achieve unity by harmonizing any possible differ- ences or competing values among the works it celebrates . There is little room for otherness in such a canon . Monolithic rather ...
... catalogue - making . In this way , a literary canon may achieve unity by harmonizing any possible differ- ences or competing values among the works it celebrates . There is little room for otherness in such a canon . Monolithic rather ...
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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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