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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... Literary Canon From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century It is widely accepted among literary scholars that canon - formation began in the eighteenth century when scholarly editions and criti- cal treatments of older works ...
... Literary Canon From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century It is widely accepted among literary scholars that canon - formation began in the eighteenth century when scholarly editions and criti- cal treatments of older works ...
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... 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.
... 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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... literary history , and other related critical practices in the eighteenth century . A sketch of early literary values may clarify the point . Before " liter- ature " in its modern sense emerged in the later eighteenth century , there ...
... literary history , and other related critical practices in the eighteenth century . A sketch of early literary values may clarify the point . Before " liter- ature " in its modern sense emerged in the later eighteenth century , there ...
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... literary production : " How much the World is oblig'd ... to the famous Writings of Milton for the Foundation of Divine Poetry ; Poetry in general is improv'd from the Writings of Chaucer , Spencer , and others ; Dramatick ...
... literary production : " How much the World is oblig'd ... to the famous Writings of Milton for the Foundation of Divine Poetry ; Poetry in general is improv'd from the Writings of Chaucer , Spencer , and others ; Dramatick ...
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... literary history , aim at the reverse , at broadening this horizon of expectations by providing readers with packages of historical information that will enable them to overcome the work's alterity . Readers , it is hoped , are ...
... literary history , aim at the reverse , at broadening this horizon of expectations by providing readers with packages of historical information that will enable them to overcome the work's alterity . Readers , it is hoped , are ...
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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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