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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... moral beliefs reinforced , or may even learn something , but early defences of poetry's utility rarely detail the nature of these effects on individual listeners or readers . Rather , these effects are benefits to the community at large ...
... moral beliefs reinforced , or may even learn something , but early defences of poetry's utility rarely detail the nature of these effects on individual listeners or readers . Rather , these effects are benefits to the community at large ...
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... moral economy . In an objectivist culture , certainty is always assumed but , perhaps to avoid conflict or to defer the question of evaluative authority , the functions of literature and of consuming it are not quite so loudly ...
... moral economy . In an objectivist culture , certainty is always assumed but , perhaps to avoid conflict or to defer the question of evaluative authority , the functions of literature and of consuming it are not quite so loudly ...
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... moral economy of English society . Textual authenticity in relation to older English texts became a major concern of critics and editors only later , once the activity of reading literature had come to seem vital to the acculturation of ...
... moral economy of English society . Textual authenticity in relation to older English texts became a major concern of critics and editors only later , once the activity of reading literature had come to seem vital to the acculturation of ...
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... moral order . In more developed societies this immortalizing function has become so doubtful that the responsibility for preserving the past has shifted from poets to institutions , and poetry has become one among numerous artifacts ...
... moral order . In more developed societies this immortalizing function has become so doubtful that the responsibility for preserving the past has shifted from poets to institutions , and poetry has become one among numerous artifacts ...
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... moral order . Yet poets have never enjoyed a monopoly on producing symbolic capital - religion , for one , has ... morally independent of the political and economic patronage that underwrites poetic production . Thus , the more poets ...
... moral order . Yet poets have never enjoyed a monopoly on producing symbolic capital - religion , for one , has ... morally independent of the political and economic patronage that underwrites poetic production . Thus , the more poets ...
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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