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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... tradition is largely understood from the point of view of the poet's contribution to the state or community as a whole . The poet teaches as he delights ; he is prophet , guide , and singer . The audience may experience catharsis , find ...
... tradition is largely understood from the point of view of the poet's contribution to the state or community as a whole . The poet teaches as he delights ; he is prophet , guide , and singer . The audience may experience catharsis , find ...
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... , or the New Critical tradition of autotelic “ verbal icons . " All these canons may be seen as ultimately enabling the goal of acquiring knowledge , but the tendency in modern thinking 12 The Making of the English Literary Canon.
... , or the New Critical tradition of autotelic “ verbal icons . " All these canons may be seen as ultimately enabling the goal of acquiring knowledge , but the tendency in modern thinking 12 The Making of the English Literary Canon.
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... tradition in order to derive a sense of legitimacy , inspiration , and evaluative certainty . The canon has often seemed to them as much a burden to be overturned as a standard to be upheld . Secondly , the notion that the canon is ...
... tradition in order to derive a sense of legitimacy , inspiration , and evaluative certainty . The canon has often seemed to them as much a burden to be overturned as a standard to be upheld . Secondly , the notion that the canon is ...
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... acknowledge change and difference , whether in the distinctiveness of an English tradition , the renewing modernity of their own work , the alterity of older writings , or the vicissitudes of experience . This 19 Introduction.
... acknowledge change and difference , whether in the distinctiveness of an English tradition , the renewing modernity of their own work , the alterity of older writings , or the vicissitudes of experience . This 19 Introduction.
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... tradition " but that such a tradition is only ever " artificially preserved " 1 Early Gestures.
... tradition " but that such a tradition is only ever " artificially preserved " 1 Early Gestures.
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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