Pleasure and Change

The Aesthetics of Canon
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-530935-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 112 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 152 g

The question of the canon has been the subject of debate in academic circles for over fifteen years. Pleasure and Change contains two lectures on this important subject by the distinguished literary critic Sir Frank Kermode. In essays that were originally delivered as Tanner Lectures at Berkeley in November of 2001, Kermode reinterprets the question of canon formation in light of two related and central notions: pleasure and change. He asks how aesthetic pleasure informs what we find valuable, and how this perception changes over time. Kermode also explores the role of chance, observing the connections between canon formation and unintentional and sometimes even random circumstance. Geoffrey Hartmann (Yale University), John Guillory (New York University), and Carey Perloff (director of the American Conservatory Theatre) offer incisive comments on these essays, to which Kermode responds in a lively rejoinder. The volume begins with a helpful introduction by Robert Alter. The result is a stimulating and accessible discussion of a highly significant cultural debate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kermode, Frank

Alter, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Pleasure and Change

- 1: Frank Kermode: Pleasure

- 2: Frank Kermode: Change

- Comments

- 3: Geoffrey Hartman: The Passing of the Canon

- 4: John Guillory: It Must Be Abstract

- 5: Carey Perloff: The Artist and the Canon

- Reply to Commentators

- 6: Frank Kermode: On the Comments of the Discussants

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sir Frank Kermode is Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge.