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Making of the English Literary Canon
Language: en
Pages: 411
Authors: Trevor Ross
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-05-20 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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An indigenous canon of letters, Ross argues, had been both the hope and aim of English authors since the Middle Ages. Early authors believed that promoting the
Making the English Canon
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Jonathan Brody Kramnick
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Jonathan Brody Kramnick's book examines the formation of the English canon over the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century. Kramnick details how the idea of
The Making of the English Literary Canon
Language: en
Pages: 412
Authors: Trevor Thornton Ross
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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It is widely accepted among literary scholars that canon-formation began in the eighteenth century when scholarly editions and critical treatments of older work
Cultural Capital
Language: en
Pages: 435
Authors: John Guillory
Categories: Canon (Literature)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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"Since its initial publication in 1993, John Guillory's Cultural Capital has been a signal text for understanding the compilation and codification of what was o
The Western Canon
Language: en
Pages: 751
Authors: Harold Bloom
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-17 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller. NOMINA