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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... functions in the past , The Making of the English Literary Canon is relevant not only to current debates over the canon but also as an important corrective to prevailing views of early modern English literature and of how it was first ...
... functions in the past , The Making of the English Literary Canon is relevant not only to current debates over the canon but also as an important corrective to prevailing views of early modern English literature and of how it was first ...
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... functions that we associate the formation of literary canons . At present , canons are made and preserved within critical and academic institutions as well as cultural establishments such 4 The Making of the English Literary Canon.
... functions that we associate the formation of literary canons . At present , canons are made and preserved within critical and academic institutions as well as cultural establishments such 4 The Making of the English Literary Canon.
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... function in its own time , a function which was often not primarily an aesthetic function at all . The whole conception of ' works of art ' as a classification for all pictures , statues , poems , and musical compositions is a ...
... function in its own time , a function which was often not primarily an aesthetic function at all . The whole conception of ' works of art ' as a classification for all pictures , statues , poems , and musical compositions is a ...
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... function and truth - value of poetry are defined in terms of utility and instrumentality . Thus , the immortality topos , until recently the prime operative trope behind all poetic production , makes the patron not the consumer of verse ...
... function and truth - value of poetry are defined in terms of utility and instrumentality . Thus , the immortality topos , until recently the prime operative trope behind all poetic production , makes the patron not the consumer of verse ...
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... function in its own time . Canon - formation in its older conception is unfamiliar to us now largely because it is a severely restricted conception , restricted precisely by the presentism Frye identifies . Works from the distant past ...
... function in its own time . Canon - formation in its older conception is unfamiliar to us now largely because it is a severely restricted conception , restricted precisely by the presentism Frye identifies . Works from the distant past ...
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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