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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... equally foregrounded in other early notions of poetry's function . Until well into the eighteenth century , the highest praise that could be awarded a poet held that he had refined his community's or his age's language , in the sense ...
... equally foregrounded in other early notions of poetry's function . Until well into the eighteenth century , the highest praise that could be awarded a poet held that he had refined his community's or his age's language , in the sense ...
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... equally reached in a rhetorical culture , but there it is continually deferred through verbal power : if all readers learn to be " impartial ” or “ learned , " as Defoe and other early writers repeatedly insist , then all could agree ...
... equally reached in a rhetorical culture , but there it is continually deferred through verbal power : if all readers learn to be " impartial ” or “ learned , " as Defoe and other early writers repeatedly insist , then all could agree ...
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... equally involve other phenomena , notably authors ' self - advertisements , modes of dissemination and publication , censorship and the dispersal of library collections , the teaching of literature , authors ' attitudes toward their ...
... equally involve other phenomena , notably authors ' self - advertisements , modes of dissemination and publication , censorship and the dispersal of library collections , the teaching of literature , authors ' attitudes toward their ...
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... equally the case that English poets exploited prevailing sentiments in order to promote their activity . Authors have invoked nationalist feelings in a variety of ways and on behalf of divergent practices ( for example , both for and ...
... equally the case that English poets exploited prevailing sentiments in order to promote their activity . Authors have invoked nationalist feelings in a variety of ways and on behalf of divergent practices ( for example , both for and ...
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... equally compelling desire to acknowledge change and difference , whether in the distinctiveness of an English tradition , the renewing modernity of their own work , the alterity of older writings , or the vicissitudes of experience ...
... equally compelling desire to acknowledge change and difference , whether in the distinctiveness of an English tradition , the renewing modernity of their own work , the alterity of older writings , or the vicissitudes of experience ...
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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