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The hospitable canon : essays on literary play, scholarly choice, and popular pressures /

The papers in this book respond to the public debate over literary canons, in the United States, and elsewhere, by placing the political-ideological aspects of the conflict inside perspectives derived from comparative literature. Canons are seen by most of the contributors as based on democratic and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nemoianu, Virgil, Royal, Robert, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991.
Colección:Cultura ludens. Imitation and play in western culture ; 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • THE HOSPITABLE CANONESSAYS ON LITERARY PLAY,SCHOLARLY CHOICE, ANDPOPULAR PRESSURES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword; Canons and Differences; I; II; III; Notes; Reading 'Nasty' Great Books; Works Cited; Marginality: Stickball, Narcissus, and the Demands of Faith; Creative Intuition, Great Books, and Freedom of Intellect; Notes; Perplexing Lessons: Is There a Core Tradition in the Humanities?; Jorge Luis Borges and the Canon of English Literature; Notes; Works Cited; Appendix I; Appendix II
  • The Teaching Anthology and the Canon of American Literature: Some Notes on Theory in Practice Notes; Multiple Points of View: A Study of French Comparative Literature Syllabi; Laocoön IV: An Essay Upon the Pragmatics of Art and the Limits of Criticism; 1. The Re-appearance; 2. A Selective History of a Very Bad Metaphor; 3. Fretted and Unfretted Statements on the Pragmatics of Art; Notes; Works Cited; Arnold's Legacy: Religious Rhetoric of Critics on the Literary Canon; Notes; Works Cited; ""Canon,"" Theme, and Code; I; II; III; Notes; Literary Canons and Social Value Options; I; II; III; IV; V; VIVII; VIII; IX; X; Notes; Contributors; Index