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Mai, Anne-Marie. "Canons and Contemporary Danish Literature." Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia 19, no. 1 (June 1, 2016): 109–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fsp-2016-0009.
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Abstract This article deals with recent Danish literature in the light of the discussion about canons occasioned by the publication of the two ministerial canons: Undervisningskanon (Educational Canon, 2004) and Kulturkanon (Cultural Canon, 2006). The article argues that recent Danish literature challenges traditional work categories and the concept of the author on which the two canons are based, and discusses which works and texts in recent Danish literature ought to belong to a future canon.
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Serrano-Muñoz, Jordi. "Canon Breeds Canon." Archiv orientální 89, no. 2 (September 30, 2021): 339–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.89.2.339-363.
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In this article, I explore the relationship between the reproduction of hegemonic discourses of national representation in the reception of literature in translation and processes of canonization. I argue that World Literature as a paradigm hinders our efforts of overcoming the burdens of canonization. As a case study, I analyze the implications of building and reproducing a canon of Japanese literature in translation in the United States for the way Japan has been represented in public discourse in the last thirty years. I will focus on the reception of Murakami Haruki as the contemporary representative of the canon of Japanese literature in translation. My goal is to examine how the circumstances of Japanese literature in translation perpetuate mechanisms of canonization in their engagement and legitimation of an ongoing logic of representation that is non-confrontational with agents in power. I aim to test the extent to which studying the reception of East Asian literature in translation can help us promote a broader discussion on the appropriateness of such frameworks in our understanding of the contemporary literary phenomenon.
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Gavryliuk, Nadiya. "Canon, Classics, Tradition: Demarcation Of The Terms." Messages, Sages and Ages 2, no. 2 (December 1, 2015): 48–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/msas-2015-0011.
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Abstract The canon is a concept with a long history. The religious canon was eventually re-established on secular grounds, where it was comprehended in the categories of official literary (general) and personal (individual) canons, educational canon (reading lists) being correlated to the concept of tradition (canon as selective tradition) and the classics (canon as synchronicity, the classics as diachronicity). These aspects have different features in each national literature, particularly in Ukrainian literature. The necessity of standards and hierarchical classifications remains important after postmodernism, when new concepts, such as corps, collection, postcanon, succeed or keep up with the concept of the canon.
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Romanenko, Ksenia. "The Transformation of the Canon, the Struggle With the Canon, the Re-creation of the Canon as the Basis of Fanfiction Culture." Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics VI, no. 2 (March 31, 2022): 168–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/2587-8719-2022-2-168-188.
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To understand the transformation of canons and the struggle with them, we may productively explore fanfiction, a particular reader's, viewer's, and author's practice, within non-professional and non-commercial texts based on the plots and heroes of other people's works. Fanfiction is a paradoxical phenomenon: it is wholly based on a specific canon — collectively selected film and literary texts, moves by worship, emotional attachment, and attention, while initially working as a criticism of the canons and changing the canons. Canon is not only a research concept but also an intra-cultural designation of the original work as the basis of a fan text. Fans also create their canon — “fanon”, a set of characteristic plot solutions and ways to change characters established in fanfiction. The article examines the intersections of the cultural canon of high and popular culture, the national literary canon, and the canon and the fanon in the understanding of fans with different types of attitudes to the canons — disintegration, transformation, struggle, re-creation. The argument is based on a critical analysis of the research literature with a focus on metaphors that help authors describe the relationship of fiction writers with the canons and on the experience of empirical research about fanfiction devoted to samples of popular culture (“Harry Potter” franchise, “Doctor Who” series, “Sherlock” series, and others), fanfiction and sequels to novels by Jane Austen, the British writer of the 19th century, and fanfiction devoted to Russian classical literature.
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Zhang, Longxi. "Canon and World Literature." Journal of World Literature 1, no. 1 (2016): 119–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00101012.
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Canon or the classic refers to the best and most representative works in a literary or cultural tradition, and the rise of world literature now provides an opportunity for scholars of different literary traditions, particularly non-Western and the less well-known and insufficiently studied “minor” traditions, to introduce and present the canonical works they know best to form a canon of world literatures. World literature is not just all the works that happen to circulate beyond their culture of origin, but the collective body of the best canonical works from various literary traditions that circulate to constitute what we call world literature.
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Borić, Aras. "Anthological Canonizations of the Recent Bosnian-Herzegovinian Poetry." Društvene i humanističke studije (Online) 7, no. 2(19) (May 20, 2022): 45–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.51558/2490-3647.2022.7.2.45.
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This work considers the question of canon as a „place of power“ and the position of literature in relation to the ideological dictates of the so-called „social reality“. In this sense, it discusses the general social, cultural, and poetic patterns on which the canon is based, that is, the canons in the most representative anthologies of recent Bosnian-Herzegovinian poetry in the last thirty years. Understanding canonization as a model of ideological impact in the production of „literary facts“, the paper explores the attitude of anthologists towards the composite integrity of Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature and at least three poietic formulas involved in the struggle for „cultural meaning“ („poetry of re-ethnicization“, „poetry of false universalism“, „poetry of differences“). The literary canon, monolithic in socialist society and reduced by political censorship, was first nationalized and later, especially in the post-war period, decentralized and turned into alternative canons. Anthologies of Bosnian- Herzegovinian poetry distinctly follow the mentioned evolution, and in that way contribute to the stratification of the canon and the breaking of its „hegemony“.
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Holgate, Ben. "A New World Literature Canon." Journal of World Literature 7, no. 3 (September 9, 2022): 427–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00703008.
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Abstract Scholarly debate about world literature often relegates non-fiction as secondary to fiction. This article argues that non-fiction is as important as fiction, and uses the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award as a case study. Although the FT award focuses on business, it has a wider cultural impact influencing academia, global media, and literature. After seventeen years, the award’s consistent quality of longlisted books has created a canon that has genuine literary value. My analysis of the award demonstrates that the finalists and winners have been concentrated in terms of author’s country of work, author’s profession, and primary subject. This concentration can be partly explained by the dominance of the US in the publishing of business books as well as by the mechanics of the award’s selection process. The FT award also prompts a discussion about the merits of a literary award that embraces both fiction and non-fiction.
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Fokkema, Douwe. "A European canon of literature?" European Review 1, no. 1 (January 1993): 21–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798700000351.
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For various reasons, the canon of literary works to be read in school has been criticized in recent years. The status of the canon, both as a concept with hierarchical connotations and as a particular set of texts, has been affected by developments in literary scholarship as well as by political views and new educational goals. However, teaching literature without the regulative idea of a canon is not very satisfactory. If we wish to select a limited number of literary texts to be taught in secondary schools, some consensus would be necessary about the functions of literature as well as about didactic goals, which in turn are related to concepts of morality and political exigencies. For instance, one may decide to teach not only a national ‘great tradition’, but to introduce a European perspective by incorporating works from abroad into the curriculum, if necessary in translation. In view of the fact that Europe is a multicultural community, it is of long-term interest to guarantee the pluriformity of any school canon of literature.
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Guillory, John. "The Period of Literature." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 115, no. 7 (December 2000): 1972–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/463619.
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On the occasion of the millennium it seems appropriate to reflect yet once more on the subject of the canon, if only to set the canon debate of the 1980s in relation to the longue durée of Western writing. There is a lesson in the fact that the turn of the millennium evoked a pervasive sense of anticlimax. History follows another and more elusive rhythm than the cycles of the calendar or the expectations of short-lived human beings. In retrospect, the debates of the 1980s greatly overestimated the stakes and possible consequences of “opening the canon,” not because there were no stakes or consequences, but because the concept of the canon belonged to the order of a mythical time, the order of millennial expectations. If it was never true that the canon was irrevocably closed to the revision and reordering of its supposed monuments, this is not to say that the tendency of verbal artifacts to solidify into monuments does not need to be resisted and that the struggle to prevent the schools from becoming the agents of this monumentalization must sometimes take the form of mythical antagonism.
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Kolevinskienė, Žydronė. "Women’s Literature in Emigration in 1950–1990: the Issue of the Canon." Knygotyra 74 (July 9, 2020): 168–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/knygotyra.2020.74.50.
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The article was inspired by the World Congress of Lithuanian Writers held in Vilnius, in May 2019, during which the literary canon was discussed – not only in Lithuania, but abroad as well: what determines the entry of some books into the school canon, their assessment with literary prizes, various nominations, and why other books remain less noticed by readers and / or literary critics. The theme of this article was further highlighted by the heated debate on the elections of the Book of the Year that took place throughout the autumn (and is still ongoing). Various top five, top ten, top twelve lists, debates over the update of the contents of the curriculum of secondary schools inevitably raise the issue of the literary canon. Therefore, it is considered that perhaps the problem is not what falls or does not fall into the literary canon, but rather how much power society gives to the literary canon itself. The main tasks of the research: to introduce the main theoretical aspects of the literary canon; to discuss the issue of literary canon and women’s creative works; to identify the dominants of the literary canon in the diaspora. The article discusses the issue of the literary canon precisely in women’s literature that was created and is still being created in the diaspora. Research sources: various literary and cultural presses of the Lithuanian diaspora in the US (Aidai (The Echoes), Darbininkas (The Worker), Draugas (The Friend), Gabija, Naujienos (The News) etc.), Literatūros lankai (Literary Folios) (Buenos Aires, 1952-1959), the book by Vladas Kulbokas Lithuanian Literary Criticism in Exile (Rome, 1982). The main reason for this discussion of (non)canonization of women’s literature is that statistically female authors write more on emigration topics. There were more women writers outside Lithuania in the second wave of emigration (DPs); more women than men give a sense to their exile experience even today. The article emphasizes that women’s involvement in public life has never been either simple or natural. Even greater challenges awaited the creating women in 1944, when they moved to the West – Germany, Austria, and from 1949 – to the US, Canada, Australia. Questions are raised as to how and why public attitudes towards the writing, creative woman have changed; how the community of the Lithuanian diaspora, influenced by a new context, new economic and political conditions in the US, thought about new creative challenges, what kind of goals and objectives were set for it. If feminization processes call for rebellion against the dominant (male) canon, if today we are talking about not a single existing canon, but rather about canons, if it is emphasized that the canon is nonetheless a changing thing related with a system of certain time values, then the canon may not exist at all and it cannot exist? The article also actualizes modern migration processes and their reflections in literature (created both in Lithuania and abroad, outside Lithuania; written not only in Lithuanian but also in English) as well, opens new possibilities for reading and interpreting women’s works – and above all – the article dedicated to the World Lithuanian Year, seeks to create a dialogue field that can help deepen the understanding of today’s (e)migration.
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Šeina, Viktorija. "Literary canon studies: methodological guidelines." Literatūra 61, no. 1 (December 20, 2019): 11–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/litera.2019.1.1.
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The article presents for the Lithuanian audience an interdisciplinary approach of literary canon studies that integrates diverse methods of various disciplines (sociology of literature and culture, literary and cultural history, teaching of literature, text reception and aesthetic response history, memory and media research and bibliography studies). The most intense development of literary canon studies can be observed in Western Europe and the United States in the last decade of the 20th century. This was due to the fact that the scholars engaged in the field of postcolonialism, gender studies and neo-Marxism gave it a strong impulse by initiating a debate about insufficient representation of some social groups (women, racial or ethnic minorities and people from lower social strata) in high school curricula in the USA. The debate was expanded into theoretical polemics of whether the canon is formed by means of objective aesthetic criteria or, on the contrary, canon depends on the social contract. Methodologically, investigations of literary canon that are genetically related to the tradition of sociology of culture seem to be the most productive, while this perspective provides an apparatus for a detailed investigation of relations between specific interests of literary field and wider national, social or group interests.The framework of this article is based on the studies of John Guillory, Renate von Heydebrand and Simone Winko. Their essential starting point is the understanding of the canon as a sociocultural process in which the political elite selects a corpus of significant texts in accordance with tradition and formulates practices that ensure the transmission of those texts for future generations. Therefore, canon formation turns to be a strategy based on complex relations of evaluation, cognition and actions that aims to conserve this selected knowledge and transmit it to future generations. The structure of the canon is directly related to the notion of literature and literariness; a society (or its group) defines its canon by considering what they recognize as valuable.Unlike religious canons, which can only be constructed by theologians, there are a lot of canonizing institutions (schools, universities, literary criticism, theatre repertoire, book market, libraries, etc.) involved in the formation of literary canons. They do not create any well-balanced system of the canon but rather conduct diverse practices of canonization. We can distinguish a micro and macro level in the process of canon formation. The micro level contains a lot of separate actions of canonization that propel the canonization process which enables the canon formation at macro level. Origin, stabilization and transformation of literary canon are multidimensional processes, thus it is essential not to lose sight of the interaction of separate dimensions.
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Schaffer, Talia. "Canon." Victorian Literature and Culture 46, no. 3-4 (2018): 594–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150318000335.
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Emre, Merve, and Justin A. Sider. "Introduction: Thirty Years after Cultural Capital." Genre 56, no. 1 (April 1, 2023): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00166928-10346769.
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Abstract This essay considers the status of John Guillory's Cultural Capital thirty years after its publication. Responding to an ongoing crisis in the humanities (which seems never to have passed) and to the “canon wars” of literary studies in the 1980s and 1990s, Cultural Capital refocused the debate about literary canons and aesthetic value away from contests of judgment in order to describe the social and institutional contexts of canon formation. What emerges from Guillory's Bourdieusian framework is a brilliant account not only of the process of canon formation but also of the professional anxieties that attend arguments about canonicity and representation. The essay explores the structure of Guillory's argument and considers why this work has been largely absent in recent debates about the state of the profession and the discipline of literary studies. The essay then introduces each contribution to this special issue, which seeks to bring Guillory's theory of canon formation back into contemporary debates about the future of literary studies, the politics of cultural representation, and the state of the humanities in crisis.
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Jeon, Hansung. "Problems of Literature Textbook and Canon." Journal of East-West Comparative Literature 50 (December 31, 2019): 243–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.29324/jewcl.2019.12.50.243.
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Rutherford, Ian. "Inverting the Canon: Hermogenes on Literature." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 94 (1992): 355. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/311437.
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Jones, Anne Hudson. "Literature and medicine: an evolving canon." Lancet 348, no. 9038 (November 1996): 1360–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(96)09219-7.
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Kronick, Joseph G. "Writing American: Between Canon and Literature." CR: The New Centennial Review 1, no. 3 (2001): 37–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ncr.2003.0066.
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Kratzert, Mona, and Debora Richey. "Native American literature: expanding the canon." Collection Building 17, no. 1 (March 1998): 4–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01604959810368947.
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Koreneva, Marina. "On one source of information on Dutch, Danish and Swedish literature in Germany and Russia in the 1830s in the context of the formation of the canon of world literature." Scandinavian Philology 19, no. 2 (2021): 360–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2021.209.
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The article analyzes the book by the famous German literary historian O. L. B. Wolff (1799–1851), The Fine Literature of Modern Europe (1832), in which an attempt was made for the first time to create a canon of European literature, which at that moment was a substitute for the non-existent canon of world literature. This article provides a comparative study of Dutch, Danish, and Swedish literatures in this work, which introduced Dutch, Swedish, and Danish authors Little-known at the time to the general reading public outside their own countries. The introduction of this forgotten source allows us to reconstruct the criteria for evaluating “Northern” literatures within the circle of “major” European literatures and to identify a “set” of those writers who, from the author’s perspective, deserved some attention and could therefore form a canon for the literatures described, which only partially coincides with the modern canon. Of particular interest is the comparison of the German text of the book with its Russian translation, published in 1835, which contains elements of a veiled polemic with the German scholar, manifested not only in cuts made and the stylistic treatment of Wolff ’s value judgements, but also in replacing certain sections by texts of Russian origin whose authorship was established for the first time in the article. The juxtaposition of the original text and its Russian translation demonstrates a discrepancy of perceptions about the hierarchy of specific literatures within the constitutive canon of the period and the translator’s desire to place Russian literature at the forefront, which he saw eclipsing the literatures of the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark.
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Menocal, María Rosa. "Bottom of the Ninth: Bases Loaded." La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 50, no. 1-2 (September 2021): 123–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cor.2021.a910114.
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Abstract: This article, in which Menocal interrogates the place of kharjas in Spanish literature, is a response to the larger debates about the "canon" that were raging in the US as part of the culture wars of the 1980s. Menocal argues that the kharjas and the muwashshaḥāt should be included in the canons of Spanish and European literature.
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Dzyk, Roman, and Liliia Shutiak. "The Reverse Side of the Socialist Realist Canon: the Experience of Ukrainian Literature." Contemporary Issues of Literary Studies - International Symposium Proceedings 16 (December 11, 2023): 17–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.62119/cils.16.2023.7513.
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The concept of literary canon to be surprisingly organic for description of what has been formed for a long time through totalitarian state mechanisms, in particular, in Ukrainian Soviet literature. Such canon is extremely structured, but not frozen. The totalitarian nature of this canon meant that nothing could exist outside of it. What was outside these limits we mean by the flip side of a socialist realist canon. These are not only the forbidden texts and authors, but also the transformation of the canon itself, when its front side turned into the reverse side; these are different editions of texts; these are textbooks in literary history, and the changes they underwent; counter-discourse in “samizdat” and the diaspora, etc. The normativity of the socialist realist canon only contributes to the reconstruction of its reverse side.
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Butenina, Evgeniya M. "Russian Classics in the USA Transcultural Canon." Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices 18, no. 2 (December 15, 2021): 165–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2618-897x-2021-18-2-165-175.
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The issue of the canon (the most studied and taught classics) is one of the most important in the world literature system. The paper briefly outlines the formation of the USA literary canon since the middle of the 19th century and details the formation of the Russian segment in the transcultural canon since the late 20th century. In the history of the USA canon formation, the institutional or sociological model (Jonathan Culler, Stanley Fish, Paul Lauter), which argues that social institutions respond to ideological demands, and the aesthetic model embodied by Harold Blooms Shakespeare-centered Western Canon stand out. An up-to-date approach to the canon assumes taking both models into account, as well as the perception of the canon as cultural memory. Anthologies are most important sources of documenting the canon. For the 20th century American literature researchers distinguish three phases formed by the leading literary trends: historiographic (1919-1946), new critical (1947-1967) and multicultural (1967- present). Based on the analysis of Norton and Longman anthologies, as well as a popular textbook The Bedford Introduction to Literature since the late 20th century to the present, the paper highlights the Russian core in the USA transcultural canon, which became the source of creative reinterpretation in contemporary literature. The present research is to be continued through the study of the Russian literature canon in specialized editions to outline a comprehensive history of the Russian-American cultural transfer.
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Konca, Paulina. "Servants or Masters? Linguistic Aids in Legal Interpretation." Ius Humani. Law Journal 10, no. 1 (March 29, 2021): 73–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.31207/ih.v10i1.237.
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This paper presents the role of some intrinsic sources in legal interpretation. Some of linguistic aids follow from provisions of the law and other from the commonly accepted ruling practice or views expressed in literature. The position of those aids was verified through the analysis of case-law, literature, and provisions of law. The first section and second section focus on the priority of plain meaning rule and intrinsic sources in legal interpretation which is strongly emphasized in legal literature, case-law and the interpretative provisions of many countries. Next, it presents how certain linguistic tools work in case law practice, what problems they can cause and what problems they can solve. The third point addresses the use of dictionaries as tools of linguistic interpretation. The fourth section explores the role of selected interpretative canons often found in legal regulations and case law practice: ordinary meaning canon, gender/number canon, ejusdem generis canon, presumption of consistent usage and prefatory-materials canon. It is concluded that the priority of a linguistic interpretation is not absolute and can never be understood as its exclusivity. Linguistic tools are not in themselves determinants of correct meaning. In order to make a correct interpretation, it is necessary not to be guided, by indications labelled as objective, sometimes artificially imposed, but by the intention of the legislator, which such tools may discover and should only be used for that purpose.
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Schenk, Leslie. "The Western Canon." World Literature Today 70, no. 2 (1996): 325. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40152051.
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Larre, Tamara. "Misguided Inferences? The Use of Expressio Unius to Interpret Tax Law." Alberta Law Review 51, no. 3 (May 11, 2014): 497. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/alr47.
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This article explores how the interpretive canon of expressio unius has been used by the courts when interpreting the Income Tax Act, and discusses the canon’s place within the landscape of statutory interpretation of income tax law. The article reviews the existing literature to describe the canon, the assumptions on which the canon relies, and the reasons in favour of and against the canon’s use. The ultimate conclusion is there is some value in the interpretive tool, but it should be used only to prompt interpreters to ask questions instead of prompting them to draw conclusions. While canons of interpretation are generally considered textualist in nature, expressio unius type reasoning is often used as a way of taking into account the context of a particular provision. Another problem apparent in the case law is that the canon, also called implied exclusion, is often confused with the canon of implied exception. The article also examines court decisions that apply or reject the use of expressio unius when interpreting the Income Tax Act. Finally, the article proposes factors that should be considered when determining whether expressio unius should be used in a particular tax case.
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Fowler, Bridget. "The ‘canon’ and Marxist theories of literature." Cultural Studies 1, no. 2 (May 1987): 162–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09502388700490121.
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Tavel, Ronald. "Disputing the Canon of American Dramatic ‘Literature’." New Theatre Quarterly 13, no. 49 (February 1997): 18–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00010769.
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In this article, Ronald Tavel argues that the commercial American theatre, endorsed by the American educational system and theatrical establishment, has never nurtured a vision of the scripted play as art – and has consequently produced no single example of it. The nation's genuine playwrights who saw their tasks as makers of art have, he claims, been neglected throughout American history, and left to wither in the wings. In the 1960s, Ronald Tavel founded and named the still-extant Theatre of The Ridiculous, and has written forty produced plays, a number of which have been translated into a dozen languages and staged in four continents. He has written and directed thirteen films for Andy Warhol: ten of these have recently been restored for international distribution by the New York Museum of Modern Art, and all are to be collected for publication later this year by Sun and Moon Press, Los Angeles. Ronald Tavel lives in Taipei, but is currently teaching a course on Warhol and the filmmaker-architect Jack Smith at the Art Centre College of Design in California. The American Institute in Taiwan selected the article which follows as the keynote address at the Seventeenth Annual Convention of the American Studies Association of the Republic of China.
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Mîrț, Andreea. ""Peripheral Interactions in Mihai Iovănel’s History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020"." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 67, no. 3 (September 20, 2022): 141–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2022.3.18.
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"Peripheral Interaction in Mihai Iovănel’s History of Contemporary Romanian Literature. 1990–2020. The overall purpose of this contribution is to assess the impact the use of examples from “marginal” literatures has on the transnational mapping of contemporary Romanian literature undertaken by Mihai Iovănel in his recent History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020. Thus, the article aims to discuss the interconnections between contemporary Romanian literature and other peripheral literatures in the History. The author uses, Mîrț argues, the Western canon strategically to show how local literary production has been incorporated into the global literary circuit. Starting from the polysystem theory of Even-Zohar (1990), the article discusses the relationship between static and dynamic canonicity. The paper notes that in Iovănel’s project, the center–periphery and canonical–non-canonical dichotomies are complicated by the use of examples from other marginal spaces and, respectively, by the integration of paraliteratures in discourse. In terms of patterns or external influences, the Western canon’s presence in contemporary Romanian literature supplemented by literary and cultural material from Central and East European literature. In mapping local literary production, Iovănel takes into account Bessarabian literature as well. Keywords: Central and Eastern European literature, Bessarabian literature, Western canon, dynamic canon, transnational"
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Drąg, Wojciech. "The Curricular Canon of Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century British and Irish Literature at Polish Universities." Anglica Wratislaviensia 56 (November 22, 2018): 45–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0301-7966.56.4.
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In 2007 Philip Tew and Mark Addis released Final Report: Survey on Teaching Contemporary British Fiction, whose aim was to establish the most popular authors and works as taught by academics at British universities. The purpose of this article is to present the results of a similar survey, which examines the reading lists of British and Irish literature courses offered in the English departments of chosen Polish universities in Warsaw, Gdańsk, Toruń, Poznań, Łódź, Lublin, Wrocław, Opole and Kraków. A discussion of the results — most commonly taught writers and texts — is accompanied by an analysis based on an online survey of the lecturers’ motivations behind including certain texts and omitting others. I will argue that whereas the teaching canon of modernist texts appears fixed all the reading lists include works by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot, the canon of post-war and contemporary literature is yet to emerge. I shall also assert the appearance of the so called “canon lag” and review the selection criteria for the inclusion of canonical texts. The article concludes with a consideration of the texts that appear most likely to join the curricular canons at Polish universities in the near future. All the discussions are set in the context of critical contributions to the study of canonicity made by Harold Bloom, Nick Bentley, Dominic Head and others.
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Caballero Wangüemert, María. "Al hilo de la literatura latinoamericana: estudios literarios/estudios culturales / To the thread of Latin American literature: literary studies / cultural studies." Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural., no. 9 (August 31, 2017): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/kam.9.9932.
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Resumen: El presente trabajo constituye un recorrido bibliográfico por la crítica y la teoría literaria hispanoamericana de los últimos 50 años, sin afán de exhaustividad, como tarea colectiva (congresos etc) y personal. Sus hitos más significativos son: cómo se formó y fue derivando el canon literario en Hispanoamérica. Las teorías postcoloniales y su aplicación al Nuevo Mundo. Las orientaciones de la crítica y la teoría literaria en / sobre Latinoamérica. La irrupción y pervivencia de los estudios culturales. Nuevas modas críticas: estudios transatlánticos, tecno escritura, ecocrítica, crítica genética... Palabras clave: canon, crítica literaria, teoría literaria, teorías postcoloniales, estudios culturales.Abstract: The present work constitutes a bibliographical route by the criticism and the Hispano-American literary theory of the last 50 years. Its author did not pretendan exhaustiveness, but a collective task of congresses etc. Its most significant milestones are: how the literary canon was formed and was derived in Spanish America. Postcolonial theories and their application to the New World. The orientations of the critic and the literary theory in / on Latin America. The irruption and survival of cultural studies. New critical fads: transatlantic studies, tecno writing, ecocritics, genetic criticism …Keywords: Canon, literary criticism, literary theory, postcolonial theories, cultural studies.
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Ofek, Galia. "“REVIEWING THE RITES PROPER TO CANONISATION”: NEW WOMAN NOVELS AND NEW CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF CANONICITY." Victorian Literature and Culture 38, no. 1 (February 23, 2010): 165–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150309990374.
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This essay examines the ways in which New Woman novelists and their critics negotiated and revised Victorian literary canons in the 1880s and 1890s in light of the controversial publications of the Higher and feminist critics of the Bible. It explores the relationship between nineteenth-century literary and religious canons and the ways in which New Woman writers both drew on and intensified contemporary debates on canonicity. While literary canons are often perceived as allowing the possibility of adding new or re-evaluated works whereas biblical canonization seems final and definitive, nineteenth- century discoveries of early, non-canonical Christian writings and fragmentary gospels such as Pistis Sophia and the Gospel of Mary profoundly problematized late-Victorian understandings of the process of canonicity. The growing recognition of the historical significance of such fragments, as well as fierce theological debates in the leading magazines of the day, highlighted canonization as a political procedure which enforced internal coherence and unity at the expense of cultural diversity. Many writers suggested that canonization involved a repression of ideological controversies and a marginalization of competing narratives, a process which was both dramatized and redressed in New Woman fiction. The scholarship that turned to the era before the biblical canon had been sealed explored the conditions which made it final and unassailable, enabling feminist novelists to examine canonicity imaginatively and critically. By drawing attention to the essentially historical and political forces that governed processes of canon formation, New Woman writers sought to expose the narrowness and the limitations of the literary canon within and against which they worked.
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Vasile, Iolanda. "“Essa Dama Bate Bué” e o cânone literário angolano." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 66, no. 4 (December 17, 2021): 239–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2021.4.16.
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Essa Dama Bate Bué and the Angolan Literary Canon. A relevant topic for the history of literature, the literary canon has been widely questioned and the Angolan literary canon is no exception, being constantly susceptible to changes. The current paper aims at challenging the Angolan literary canon and defending the necessity of including the novel Essa Dama Bate Bué by Yara Monteiro. Published in 2018, it represents an example of silenced literature about women and guerrilla movements during the war for national independence, the subsequent civil war, and the post-conflict period. The book problematizes the presence of women in national wars, the countless roles they played, but also their integration in the post-colonial society, giving insights into a topic largely ignored in Angolan literature. Keywords: Angola, Angolan women, canon, Yara Monteiro, guerrilla movements
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Szakál, Anna. "Collections of Hungarian Folk Literature from the 19th Century and Their Canonisation." Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 66, no. 1 (April 11, 2022): 5–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/022.2021.00006.
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Abstract In the first half of the present article, I review collections of folk literature which include 19th-century folktales, placing a special emphasis on trying to establish the extent to which these texts and the associated collectors have been studied, explored, and published. 1 Next, I demonstrate which of the texts in question may be considered as part of the canon 2 of folk literature that emerged in the latter third of the 19th century, which works and authors defined the approaches that were considered relevant, and what the selection criteria for canonisation were. Alongside the interpretative canon, I shall also attempt to record the textual canon and its changes – to capture the act by which certain texts were clearly excluded from the canon while others were included by the individuals who wished to create or modify the canon. I would also like to show how the image of 19th-century collectors and collections created in the second half of the century became gradually transformed during the 20th century, and how these changes affected the place the collections in question occupy in folkloristics in general.
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Schechner, Richard. "The Canon." TDR (1988-) 35, no. 4 (1991): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1146149.
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Buurma, Rachel Sagner, and Laura Heffernan. "The Classroom in the Canon: T.S. Eliot's Modern English Literature Extension Course for Working People and The Sacred Wood." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 133, no. 2 (March 2018): 264–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2018.133.2.264.
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Literary critics have long imagined that T. S. Eliot's The Sacred Wood (1920) shaped the canon and methods of countless twentieth-century classrooms. This essay turns instead to the classroom that made The Sacred Wood: the Modern English Literature extension school tutorial that Eliot taught to working-class adults between 1916 and 1919. Contextualizing Eliot's tutorial within the extension school movement shows how the ethos and practices of the Workers' Educational Association shaped his teaching. Over the course of three years, Eliot and his students reimagined canonical literature as writing by working poets for working people—a model of literary history that fully informed his canon reformation in The Sacred Wood. This example demonstrates how attention to teaching changes the history of English literary study. It further reveals how all kinds of institutions, not just elite universities, have shaped the discipline's methods and canons.
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Johnson, Jeff. "Literature, political correctness and cultural equity." English Today 8, no. 2 (April 1992): 44–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078400006350.
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Bach, Oliver. "Kanon und Klassiker der Frühen Neuzeit?" Daphnis 51, no. 4 (September 20, 2023): 643–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18796583-12340092.
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Abstract The aim of this article is to outline several aspects of a canon of early modern German literature as they had been discussed by a volume Klassiker der Frühen Neuzeit (ed. Regina Toepfer) in 2022. In the light of recent criticism of any conception of canon as an outcome of hegemonial thinking as well as considering the increasing disregard of early modern literature even in universities, it is foremost the Early Modern Literature Studies who are urged to discuss the question of whether there are sufficient reasons for upholding a literary canon at least to a certain degree and whether texts of the early modern period can or must be part of such a canon.
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Adler, Anthony Curtis. "Hölderlin’s Heraclitean Canon." Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 99, no. 1 (January 2, 2024): 36–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00168890.2023.2292610.
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Lazarević, Đorđe. "STRUKTURA KANONA NA JUTRENjU NA PRIMERU „SLUŽBE SVETOM PATRIJARHU JEFREMU“." Lipar XXI, no. 73 (2020): 77–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/lipar73.077l.
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The paper shows the connection between the Biblical canticles and canons at orthros, the most important and most solemn part of this church service, through the example of The Service to Holy Patriarch Jefrem by the medieval poet, bishop Marko Pećki. The analysis of the structure of canon at orthros, a liturgical hymn that belongs to the corpus of old Serbian literature, indicates the possibilities of connecting the Biblical text with Serbian medieval texts and its influence on them. Connecting Biblical canticles with the hymns of canon is achieved through irmos, an introductory stanza inspired by the contents of the Holy Bible which links the events from the hagiography with the basic meaning of the Biblical text.
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Coryat, Susan, and Colleen Clemens. "Women in or outside of the Canon: Helping High School Students Investigate the Role of Women in “Literature”." English Journal 106, no. 5 (May 1, 2017): 40–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej201729093.
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This article presents the authors’ work when they co-taught seniors about the implications of a male-centered, Eurocentric canon and asked their students to explore who is in the canon and what we can do to make the canon more inclusive.
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Deriglazova, L. V., and A. M. Pogorelskaya. "Historical Transformations of the Russian Literary Canon in Russia and the United Kingdom." Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology 23, no. 1 (February 7, 2024): 31–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2024-23-1-31-43.
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The article aims to reveal the changes in studies of Russian literature in Russia and the United Kingdom in the last three decades. The authors use the concept of the Russian literary canon to highlight the differences in the content and focus of the study of Russian literature. The empirical base of the research is Russian official documents, school textbooks, syllabi of university courses in Russian literature, and the collections of university libraries in the UK. Russian literary canon has changed to bridge the ideological break in Russian literature of the twentieth century. In Russia, the main channel for transmitting the canon is school education. The study of literature is supposed to ensure the formation of national identity, patriotism, humanistic values, and understanding of the exclusivity of Russian literature. The national canon understood as “compulsory reading”, performs socializing, educational, and stabilizing functions. The study of Russian literature in the UK began in the late 19th century at universities, where course content reflected the changing political context. Library collections and university curricula demonstrate the wide range of authors and research topics studied. The study of Russian literature in the UK could not be defined through the Russian literature canon as there is no mandatory reading, and it is studied mainly in translation. Thus, there is no connection between language and literature. The stable interest in the UK towards Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries confirms that it belongs to the world’s cultural heritage beyond national borders.
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Shapiro, Lisa. "Canon, genre et historiographie." Dix-septième siècle 296, no. 3 (May 13, 2022): 417–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/dss.223.0417.
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COLE, PHYLLIS. "The New Emerson Canon." Resources for American Literary Study 37 (January 1, 2014): 261–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/26367693.
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Abstract This review-essay salutes the completion of the final volume (Uncollected Prose Writings) in the fifty-year project of editing Ralph Waldo Emerson's Collected Works while also reflecting on editorial principles that result in omissions from a newly definitive representation of the author. Since the 1970s, all editors have followed the principles of Walter Greg and included only texts for which there was “initial coherent intent” by Emerson. With his increasing dementia in old age, however, such intent was construed by a team of others, yet collaborative texts have been omitted from this volume in particular. Detailing the gains of Uncollected Prose Writings, the review-essay also argues for the authenticity of selected missing texts, in particular the lecture “Mary Moody Emerson” and the Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Further editing work may be possible on these, following the collaborative, intertextual (often digital) models proposed since Greg's time by Jerome McGann.
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Lauter, Paul. "Melville Climbs the Canon." American Literature 66, no. 1 (March 1994): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927431.
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COLE, PHYLLIS. "The New Emerson Canon." Resources for American Literary Study 37 (January 1, 2014): 261–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/resoamerlitestud.37.2014.0261.
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Abstract This review-essay salutes the completion of the final volume (Uncollected Prose Writings) in the fifty-year project of editing Ralph Waldo Emerson's Collected Works while also reflecting on editorial principles that result in omissions from a newly definitive representation of the author. Since the 1970s, all editors have followed the principles of Walter Greg and included only texts for which there was “initial coherent intent” by Emerson. With his increasing dementia in old age, however, such intent was construed by a team of others, yet collaborative texts have been omitted from this volume in particular. Detailing the gains of Uncollected Prose Writings, the review-essay also argues for the authenticity of selected missing texts, in particular the lecture “Mary Moody Emerson” and the Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Further editing work may be possible on these, following the collaborative, intertextual (often digital) models proposed since Greg's time by Jerome McGann.
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Tanner, T. "American Canon." boundary 2 37, no. 2 (June 1, 2010): 71–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2010-003.
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Petrescu, Cristina. "O lugar da literatura monástica feminina no cânone Barroco português." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 66, no. 4 (December 17, 2021): 211–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2021.4.14.
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Women’s Monastic Writing within the Portuguese Baroque Canon. This article aims to approach Portuguese female monastic literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in terms of its relationship with the Baroque literary canon. Shaped at the border that separates voice and silence, the visible and the spiritual universe, the cult of moderation and the desire to assert, this literature outlined a new type of discourse, which hinted at the intense conflict between suppression and authority, which, in turn, gave rise to a permanent dialogue between the feminine ethos, the controversial character of the Baroque and the always oscillating essence of the canon. We will show, that, during the last centuries, the works of some famous female writers, such as Sóror Maria do Céu, Sóror Violante do Céu and Sóror Madalena da Glória, or of other female authors who remained in the shadows, have been differently and unequally absorbed by literary critics and historians and by great anthologists. Their writings have not ceased to be represented as preferential places of dispute, of the uninterrupted dialogue between silence and affirmation, between center and margin, which generally regulates the literary canon. Keywords: monastic, literature, feminine, canon, Baroque
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Mujica, Barbara. "Teaching Literature: Canon, Controversy, and the Literary Anthology." Hispania 80, no. 2 (May 1997): 203. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/345879.
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Gugelberger, Georg M. "Decolonizing the Canon: Considerations of Third World Literature." New Literary History 22, no. 3 (1991): 505. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/469201.
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Flynn, Joyce. "From Colony to Canon: Mapping Modern Irish Literature." Éire-Ireland 31, no. 3-4 (1996): 255–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/eir.1996.0027.
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