Canons

by Von Hallberg, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780226864945
• ISBN10: 0226864944
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1984-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Canon formation: ". . . the traditional dream of ambitious critics. A canon is commonly seen as what other people, once powerful, have made and what should now be opened up, demystified, or eliminated altogether." So writes editor Robert von Hallberg in his introduction. This collection of essays articulates how canons are constructed and examines the ways in which academic canons influence literary thought and instruction. Presenting a wide range of canonical interpretation, the volume includes essays on such themes as Native American literature and the canon, the ideology of canon formation, the history of American poetry anthologies, undoing the canonical economy, the making of the modernist canon, and canon and power in the Hebrew scriptures.

Table of Contents

Introduction Contingencies of Value

An Idea and Ideal of a Literary Canon

A Poetics of Abandonment

Augustan Poetry and the Alexandrian Past

Dante, Lucan, and Virgil

Undoing the Canonical Economy

Romantic Poetics and the English Canon

On the Containment of the Past in Baudelaire and Manet

T. S. Eliot and Cleanth Brooks

U.S. Fiction, 1960-1975

Index

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