The Hospitable Canon: Essays on literary play, scholarly choice, and popular pressures by Virgil Nemoianu
The Hospitable Canon: Essays on literary play, scholarly choice, and popular pressures by Virgil Nemoianu
English | 21 Jun. 1991 | ISBN: 9027242372, 1556191529 | 279 Pages | PDF | 27 MB
English | 21 Jun. 1991 | ISBN: 9027242372, 1556191529 | 279 Pages | PDF | 27 MB
The papers in this book respond to the public debate over literary canons, in the United States, and elsewhere, by placing the political-ideological aspects of the conflict inside perspectives derived from comparative literature. Canons are seen by most of the contributors as based on democratic and communal intentions or choices inevitable filtered through and colored by historical experiences and social biases.