The Making of the Modern Canon
Subtitle: Genesis and Crisis of a Literary Idea
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: May 08, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781472513274
Description: "This book is part of a series which moves the canon debate of the 1980s forward into a new multidisciplinary and cross-cultural phase by investigating problems of canon formation across the whole humanistic field. Some volumes explore the linguistic, political or anthropological dimensions of canonicity. Others examine the historical canons of individual disciplines. The important contribution to the canon debate is remarkable in examining the actual process of canon formation from three unusual and complementary angles. The first two chapters discuss historical attitudes to canons from antiquity onwards, showing the religious, aesthetic, cultural and political interests which have shaped our modern critical canons. Each of the four succeeding chapters examines an exemplary modern defendant, interpreter, or critic of canons: Ernst Gombrich, Northrop Frye, Frank Kermode, and Edward Said. A final chapter considers the origins and rationale of the contemporary debate, emphasizing the disciplinary and aesthetic problems we must confront if our cultural institutions are to meet the changing needs of the next century."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Source title: The Making of the Modern Canon: Genesis and Crisis of a Literary Idea (Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism)