ISBN:
9781137049162
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (V, 314 p, online resource)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Debating the canon
Keywords:
Structural geology
;
Higher education
;
Literature
;
Literature
;
Literature Philosophy
;
Literature History and criticism
;
Structural geology
;
Higher education
;
Quelle
;
Kanon
;
Literatur
;
Geschichte 1700-
Abstract:
Over the past two decades, the debate over the 'Great Books' has been one of the key public controversies concerning the cultural content of higher education. Debating the Canon provides a primary-source overview of these ongoing arguments. Many of these contributions to this debate have achieved 'canonical' status themselves; through the focus on the canon, the full spectrum of approaches to literary studies can be seen in the essays. Therefore, this collection places the recent debate within a larger context of literary criticism's development of a canon, going back to the eighteenth century
Abstract:
Over the past two decades, the debate over the 'Great Books' has been one of the key public controversies concerning the cultural content of higher education. Debating the Canon provides a primary-source overview of these ongoing arguments. Many of these contributions to this debate have achieved 'canonical' status themselves; through the focus on the canon, the full spectrum of approaches to literary studies can be seen in the essays. Therefore, this collection places the recent debate within a larger context of literary criticism's development of a canon, going back to the eighteenth century.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: "The Canon Brawl: Arguments over the Canon"
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from The Tatler, No. 108 (Thursday, December 15, to Saturday, December 17, 1709)
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from "Of the Standard of Taste," Essays (1757)
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from "Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare" (1765)
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"Why not all agree, as you can all read the book?" from a speech to the Boston Missionary Society (1828)
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from "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time," Essays in Criticism (1865)
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"Tradition and the Individual Talent," The Sacred Wood (1919)
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from Mass Civilization and Minority Culture (1933)
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"Reading and the Growth of the Mind," How to Read a Book (1940)
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from "Odysseus' Scar," Mimesis (1946; trans. 1953)
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from "Persecution and the Art of Writing," Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952)
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from "On National Culture," Wretched of the Earth (1961)
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from "Commitment: The Politics of Autonomous Art," New Left Review (1962)
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"Colonialist Criticism," Hopes and Impediments (1974, 1988)
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from "The Female Tradition," A Literature of Their Own (1977)
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-137-04916-2
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