This book is part of a series which moves the canon debate of the
1980s forward into a new multidisciplinary and cross-cultural phase
by investigating problems of canon formation across the whole
humanistic field. Some volumes explore the linguistic, political or
anthropological dimensions of canonicity. Others examine the
historical canons of individual disciplines. The important
contribution to the canon debate is remarkable in examining the
actual process of canon formation from three unusual and
complementary angles. The first two chapters discuss historical
attitudes to canons from antiquity onwards, showing the religious,
aesthetic, cultural and political interests which have shaped our
modern critical canons. Each of the four succeeding chapters
examines an exemplary modern defendant, interpreter, or critic of
canons: Ernst Gombrich, Northrop Frye, Frank Kermode, and Edward
Said. A final chapter considers the origins and rationale of the
contemporary debate, emphasizing the disciplinary and aesthetic
problems we must confront if our cultural institutions are to meet
the changing needs of the next century.
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