Debating the Canon: A Reader from Addison to Nafisi
Contributor(s): Morrissey, Lee [editor.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: BookPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.Description: V, 314 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781137049162.Subject(s): Literature | Literature -- Philosophy | Literature -- History and criticism | Structural geology | Higher education | Literature | Literary Theory | Literary History | Higher Education | Structural GeologyDDC classification: 801 Online resources: Click here to access online In: Springer eBooksSummary: Over the past two decades, the debate over the 'Great Books' has been one of the key public controversies concerning the cultural content of higher education. Debating the Canon provides a primary-source overview of these ongoing arguments. Many of these contributions to this debate have achieved 'canonical' status themselves; through the focus on the canon, the full spectrum of approaches to literary studies can be seen in the essays. Therefore, this collection places the recent debate within a larger context of literary criticism's development of a canon, going back to the eighteenth century.Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Over the past two decades, the debate over the 'Great Books' has been one of the key public controversies concerning the cultural content of higher education. Debating the Canon provides a primary-source overview of these ongoing arguments. Many of these contributions to this debate have achieved 'canonical' status themselves; through the focus on the canon, the full spectrum of approaches to literary studies can be seen in the essays. Therefore, this collection places the recent debate within a larger context of literary criticism's development of a canon, going back to the eighteenth century.
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