Canon Vs. Culture: Reflections on the Current Debate

by Jan Gorak (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138988064
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/22/2016
Series:	Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jan Gorak

Table of Contents

Part 1 Why the Revolution Happened; Chapter 1 Opening the American Mind, William E. Cain; Chapter 2 Canon Fodder, Jessica Munns; Chapter 3 Curricular Shifts in the Study and Teaching of French, Philip Thody; Part 2 Old Canons/New Disciplines; Chapter 4 No Contest, No History, Geoffrey Hawthorn; Chapter 5 Accounting for Differences, Bernth Lindfors; Chapter 6 The Politics of Poetics, Sandra Lea Meek; Part 3 The Canon as Historical Phenomenon; Chapter 7 The Origin of the Concept of a Canon and Its Application to the Greek and Latin Classics, George A. Kennedy; Chapter 8 The Land Where the Canon B(l)ooms:, Jeffrey L. Sammons; Chapter 9 Canon and the Traditions of Musical Culture, William Weber; Part 4 Old Canons / New Readings; Chapter 10 Dances with Daffodils, J. Edward Chamberlin; Chapter 11 Intertextuality and Dialogue, James A. Sanders; Chapter 12 Reflections on the Eighteenth-Century Canon, Jan Gorak;