Groak / Gorak Canon Vs. Culture

Reflections on the Current Debate
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-134-81802-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture

Canon Vs. Culture explores the consequences of one of the main educational shifts of the last quarter century-- the changes from academic inquiry conducted through a selected list of accepted authorities to an investigation of the cultural operations of an entire society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Groak, Jan

Gorak, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Part One: Why the Revolution Happened
Opening the American Mind: Reflections on the "Canon" Controversy William E. Cain
Canon Fodder: Women's Studies and the (British) Literary Canon Jessica Munns
Curricular Shifts in the Study and Teaching of French Philip Thody
Part Two: Old Canons/New Disciplines
No Contest, No History: The Sociological Canon Geoffrey Hawthorn
Accounting for Differences: Teaching and Researching African Literatures Bernth Lindfors
The Politics of Poetics: Creative Writing Programs and the Double canon of Contemporary Poetry Sandra lee Meek
Part Three: The Canon as Historical Phenomenon
The Origin of the Concept of a Canon and Its Application to the Greek and Latin Classics George A. Kennedy
The Land Where the Canon B(l)ooms: Observations on the German Canon and its Opponents, There and Here Jeffrey L. Sammons
Canon and the Traditions of Musical Culture William Weber
Part Four: Old Canons/ New Readings
Dances with daffodills: Wordsworth and the Postcolonial Canon J. Edward Chamberlain
Intertextuality and Dialogue: New Approaches to the Scriptural Canon James A. Sanders
Reflections on the Eighteenths-Century Canon: Disciplinary Changes in the Humanities Jan Gorak
Contributors