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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... eloquence , and verbal production , whereas an objectivist culture invokes methods of empirical observation and analysis , reading and research , interpretation and judgment , 6 The Making of the English Literary Canon.
... eloquence , and verbal production , whereas an objectivist culture invokes methods of empirical observation and analysis , reading and research , interpretation and judgment , 6 The Making of the English Literary Canon.
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... judgment , criticism , and other " forms of attention . ' 991 1 A fuller sense of this distinction as it relates specifically to the history of canon - formation is available from a description Richard McKeon has provided of an historic ...
... judgment , criticism , and other " forms of attention . ' 991 1 A fuller sense of this distinction as it relates specifically to the history of canon - formation is available from a description Richard McKeon has provided of an historic ...
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... judgment , ” an undecidability as to where value resides , in the text or its affects , in the reader's innate judgment , or in what he or she has learned from reading works of intrinsic merit.24 This aporia is equally reached in a ...
... judgment , ” an undecidability as to where value resides , in the text or its affects , in the reader's innate judgment , or in what he or she has learned from reading works of intrinsic merit.24 This aporia is equally reached in a ...
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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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