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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... classical symbols of the poetic profession : " Skelton " wears a laurel crown , holds before him an open book and what appears to be another book or a pen , and is seated at a large cathedra structure , in the manner of Virgil and other ...
... classical symbols of the poetic profession : " Skelton " wears a laurel crown , holds before him an open book and what appears to be another book or a pen , and is seated at a large cathedra structure , in the manner of Virgil and other ...
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... classical rhetoric such as " eloquence . " They assume , rightly or not , that the tastes and sensi- bilities of their readers are much like their own ; they will , in any event , use their verbal power to induce such conformity of ...
... classical rhetoric such as " eloquence . " They assume , rightly or not , that the tastes and sensi- bilities of their readers are much like their own ; they will , in any event , use their verbal power to induce such conformity of ...
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... Classical aesthetics did not often take into account the specific responses or requirements of audiences.19 Rather , the norms of clas- sical rhetoric were designed in accordance with the immediate needs of speakers and " makers . ” By ...
... Classical aesthetics did not often take into account the specific responses or requirements of audiences.19 Rather , the norms of clas- sical rhetoric were designed in accordance with the immediate needs of speakers and " makers . ” By ...
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... classical canon stood as a pedagogical model of rhetorical eloquence and as an ideological model of poetry - making in the service of empire - building . As to the status and utility of the indigenous canon , Defoe's rehearsal of con ...
... classical canon stood as a pedagogical model of rhetorical eloquence and as an ideological model of poetry - making in the service of empire - building . As to the status and utility of the indigenous canon , Defoe's rehearsal of con ...
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... classical hierarchy of genres designed to reflect a social hierarchy . But privileging certain values over others may not necessarily check the homogenizing pressures of canon - formation , for one of the prime functions of canons is to ...
... classical hierarchy of genres designed to reflect a social hierarchy . But privileging certain values over others may not necessarily check the homogenizing pressures of canon - formation , for one of the prime functions of canons is to ...
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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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