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Making of the Modern Canon

By Jan Gorak

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Making of the Modern Canon

By Jan Gorak

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
1991-03-01
Publication Date:
1990-12-01
Publisher:
Continnuum-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0485113880
ISBN13:
9780485113884
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
536 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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