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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... human sciences , and , for some who lived through it , as the triumph of the moderns over the ancients . In the terms I wish to borrow here , the change is one more round in the age - old quarrel between rhetoric 7 and philosophy . In ...
... human sciences , and , for some who lived through it , as the triumph of the moderns over the ancients . In the terms I wish to borrow here , the change is one more round in the age - old quarrel between rhetoric 7 and philosophy . In ...
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... gather scattered humanity into one place , or to lead it out of its brutish existence in the wilderness up to our present condition of civilization as men and as citizens , or , after the 8 The Making of the English Literary Canon.
... gather scattered humanity into one place , or to lead it out of its brutish existence in the wilderness up to our present condition of civilization as men and as citizens , or , after the 8 The Making of the English Literary Canon.
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... human knowledge and literary expression by encapsulating the whole truth of experience . The poet - genius may be valued as the master interpreter , one who sheds new light on our world or who makes us perceive experience from the point ...
... human knowledge and literary expression by encapsulating the whole truth of experience . The poet - genius may be valued as the master interpreter , one who sheds new light on our world or who makes us perceive experience from the point ...
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... human imagination may , in theory , lead to solidarity insofar as they encourage an understanding of personal and cultural differences , but the advancement of society depends on the capacity and willingness of readers to engage in such ...
... human imagination may , in theory , lead to solidarity insofar as they encourage an understanding of personal and cultural differences , but the advancement of society depends on the capacity and willingness of readers to engage in such ...
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... human knowledge and of helping to overcome social divisions . Literature is valuable only insofar as it helps to fashion and educate more and better readers , receivers of ever more refined sen- sibility , consumers of ever greater ...
... human knowledge and of helping to overcome social divisions . Literature is valuable only insofar as it helps to fashion and educate more and better readers , receivers of ever more refined sen- sibility , consumers of ever greater ...
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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