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Zusatztext "It would be hard for me to overestimate my enthusiasm for the extremely timely and useful book that Morrissey has put together...He has picked the best of the best-known contributions! and also strayed someway afield to bring in pieces that will enrich debate...I honestly can't think of one important piece in the canon debates that belongs in Morrissey's table of contents that he hasn't already though of." - Kevin J. H. Dettmar! Past-President! Modernist Studies Association Informationen zum Autor LEE MORRISSEY is Professor of English at Clemson University, USA. Klappentext Over the past two decades, the debate over the 'Great Books' has been one of the key public controversies concerning the cultural content of higher education. Debating the Canon provides a primary-source overview of these ongoing arguments. Many of these contributions to this debate have achieved 'canonical' status themselves; through the focus on the canon, the full spectrum of approaches to literary studies can be seen in the essays. Therefore, this collection places the recent debate within a larger context of literary criticism's development of a canon, going back to the eighteenth century. Zusammenfassung Over the past two decades, the debate over the 'Great Books' has been one of the key public controversies concerning the cultural content of higher education. Debating the Canon provides a primary-source overview of these ongoing arguments. Many of these contributions to this debate have achieved 'canonical' status themselves; through the focus on the canon, the full spectrum of approaches to literary studies can be seen in the essays. Therefore, this collection places the recent debate within a larger context of literary criticism's development of a canon, going back to the eighteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 'Canon, Repertoire, or, What's in a Metaphor?' 'Literature and the Dignity of Man' (1709); R.Steele Selections from the 'Pleasures of the Imagination' series (1711); J.Addison 'Of the Standard of Taste' (1757); D.Hume 'Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare' (1765); S.Johnson 'We Never Quarrel About Religion' (1828); R.J.Iroquois 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time' (1865); M.Arnold 'Hebraism and Hellenism' (1869); M.Arnold 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' (1919)' T.S.Eliot 'Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture' (1930); F. R.Leavis 'Theses on the Philosophy of History' (1940); W.Benjamin 'Reading and the Growth of the Mind' (1940); M.Adler 'Odysseus' Scar' (1953); E.Auerbach 'National Culture' (1961); F.Fanon 'Commitment' (1962); T.Adorno 'On the Abolition of the English Department' (1968); N.W.Thiong'o 'Colonialist Criticism' (1974); C.Achebe 'The Female Tradition' (1977); E.Showalter 'A Map for Rereading: Or, Gender and the Interpretation of Literary Texts' (1980); A.Kolodny 'Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors' (1981); N.Baym 'The Field of Cultural Production' (1983); P.Bourdieu 'To Reclaim a Legacy: Text of Report on Humanities in Education' (1984); W.Bennett 'Sexual Politics and Critical Judgment' (1985); E.Meese ''But is it Any Good?': The Institutionalization of Literary Value' (1985); J.Tomkins 'Rise of the Fragmented Curriculum' (1987); E.D.Hirsch 'Introduction: Our Virtue', 'The Student and the University', The Conclusion', (1987); A.Bloom 'Volume I: Introduction' (1987); M.Bernal 'Contingencies of Value' (1988); B.Hernstein Smith From History and Value (1989); F.Kermode 'Native American Literature and the Canon' (1989); A.Krupat 'Canons and Differences' (1990); C.Altieri From Death of Literature (1990); A.Kernan 'Preface' 'Speaking Against the Humanities' (1990); R.Kimball 'Canon Fathers and Myth Universe' (1990); L.Robinson 'The Shaping of the American Literary Canon' (1991); P.Lauter 'Canon to the Right of Me' (1991); K.Pollitt From Loose Canons (1992); H.L.Gates...
