Reading the Canon
Literary History in the 21st Century
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1. Auflage, 2017
458 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8253-7689-5
Sortiment: E-Book
Ausgabe: PDF
Fachgebiet: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Reihe: American Studies – A Monograph Series, Band: 281
lieferbar: 02.03.2017
Schlagwörter:
Shakespeare, William, Periodisierung, Literaturgeschichte, Pynchon, Thomas, soziale Praxis, Literaturbetrieb, Morrison, Toni, Smith, Zadie, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Alexie, Sherman, Douglass, Frederick, Literaturdidaktik, Literaturkanon, Literaturmarkt, literarische Klassiker, Leser, literarischer Wert, literarischer Produktion, Kulturtechniken, Poe, Edgar Allen, Neal, John, Ravenhill, Mark, Priestley, J.B.
‘Reading the Canon’ explores the relation between the production of literary value and the problem of periodization, tracing how literary tastes, particular reader communities, and sites of literary learning shape the organization of literature in historical perspective. Rather than suggesting a political critique of the canon, this book shows that the production of literary relevance and its tacit hierarchies of value are necessary consequences of how reading and writing are organized as social practices within different fields of literary activity.
‘Reading the Canon’ offers a comprehensive theoretical account of the conundrums still defining contemporary debates about literary value; the book also features a series of historically-inflected author studies—from classics, such as Shakespeare and Thomas Pynchon, to less likely figures, such as John Neal and Owen Johnson—that illustrate how the idea of literary relevance has been appropriated throughout history and across a variety of national and transnational literary institutions.
Beitr. v.: Philipp Löffler, Clemens Spahr, Günter Leypoldt, Michael Basseler, Peter Paul Schnierer, Johannes Völz, Heiko Jakubzik, Sascha Pöhlmann, Franziska Schmid, Katharina Gerund, Caroline Lusin, Jan Rupp, Dirk Wiemann, Stefanie Schäfer, Karin Höpker, Tim Sommer, Sophie Spieler, Kirsten Hertel, Erik Redling
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Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni in: Revue française d’études américaines, 2021/4 (N° 169), 112-114
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William Baker in: The Year´s Work in English Studies, Vol. 98 (2019), Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Reference Works, 1309-1410, hier: 1372ff
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Michaela Keck in: Anglia, 136.3 (2018), 555-559
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