Making of the Modern Canon: Genesis and Crisis of a Literary Idea - Couverture rigide

Gorak, Jan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0485113880 ISBN 13 : 9780485113884

Editeur : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2000

Synopsis

Book by Gorak Jan

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Professor Jan Gorak teaches at he University of Denver. His publications include God the Artist (1987), Critic of Crisis (1987) and The Alien Mind of Raymond Williams (1988).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0485113880
• ISBN 13: 9780485113884
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320