Title: Canons /
Authors: Von Hallberg, Robert,
Date: 1984
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Physical description: 407 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: Contingencies of value / Barbara Herrnstein Smith -- An idea and ideal of a literary canon / Charles Altieri -- Canon and power in the Hebrew scriptures / Gerald L. Bruns -- Aristotle's sister : a poetics of abandonment / Lawrence Lipking -- Re-creating the canon : Augustan poetry and the Alexandrian past / James E.G. Zetzel -- Poeta che mi guidi : Dante, Lucan, and Virgil / Winthrop Wetherbee -- When Eve reads Milton : undoing the Canonical economy / Christine Froula -- A few Canonic variations / Joseph Kerman -- The Pope controversy : romantic poetics and the English canon / James Chandler -- Painting memories : on the containment of the past in Baudelaire and Manet / Michael Fried -- The religious poetry of Christina Rossetti / Jerome J. McGann -- A history of American poetry anthologies / Alan C. Golding -- Native American literature and the canon / Arnold Krupat -- The ideology of canon-formation : T.S. Eliot and Cleanth Brooks / John Guillory -- The making of the modernist canon / Hugh Kenner -- The shaping of a canon : U.S. fiction, 1960-1975 / Richard Ohmann.
Notes: Most of the articles were taken from the Sept. 1983, Dec. 1983, and Mar. 1984 issues of Critical inquiry.
Subject headings (LCSH): Canon (Literature); Criticism.