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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... Knowledge 147 The Grounds of Value 149 Values in Literature 156 Value and Cultural Change 165 5 The Fall of Apollo 173 Sessions of the Poets 174 " I lisp'd in Numbers , for the Numbers came ” : Pope and the Poetic Compulsion 184 The ...
... Knowledge 147 The Grounds of Value 149 Values in Literature 156 Value and Cultural Change 165 5 The Fall of Apollo 173 Sessions of the Poets 174 " I lisp'd in Numbers , for the Numbers came ” : Pope and the Poetic Compulsion 184 The ...
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... knowledge objectively since language is forever coloured by belief and desire , including the desire for transcendence . And to the degree that its structures of thought are made operative by belief and ideology , knowledge always ...
... knowledge objectively since language is forever coloured by belief and desire , including the desire for transcendence . And to the degree that its structures of thought are made operative by belief and ideology , knowledge always ...
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... knowledge.13 A solution is to relax the absoluteness of standards or , more precisely , to replace prescriptive standards with an absoluteness of method and factual certainty by using historicist arguments such as " times change ...
... knowledge.13 A solution is to relax the absoluteness of standards or , more precisely , to replace prescriptive standards with an absoluteness of method and factual certainty by using historicist arguments such as " times change ...
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... knowledge about experience . Invention is still prized , as the modern cults of genius and originality may attest , but the social function of written art is no longer understood in relation to the practical requirements of either the ...
... knowledge about experience . Invention is still prized , as the modern cults of genius and originality may attest , but the social function of written art is no longer understood in relation to the practical requirements of either the ...
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From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century Trevor Ross. of knowledge by the subject that is foremost . Such efforts of the human imagination may , in theory , lead to solidarity insofar as they encourage an understanding of ...
From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century Trevor Ross. of knowledge by the subject that is foremost . Such efforts of the human imagination may , in theory , lead to solidarity insofar as they encourage an understanding of ...
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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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