2007, ISBN: 9783640097616

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 5.5 (CH), University of Bern, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: Englis… Mehr…

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 5.5 (CH), University of Bern, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The American Heritage Dictionary has eleven separate definitions of the term canon, which shall be highlighted in chapeter 1, the most relevant of which is 'an authoritative list, as of the works of an author' and 'a basis for judgment; standard; criterion.' Canon is also defined as 'the books of th Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 5.5 (CH), University of Bern, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The American Heritage Dictionary has eleven separate definitions of the term canon, which shall be highlighted in chapeter 1, the most relevant of which is 'an authoritative list, as of the works of an author' and 'a basis for judgment; standard; criterion.' Canon is also defined as 'the books of the Bible officially recognized by the Church,' and the idea of a literary canon also implies some such official status. To enter the canon, or more properly, to be entered into the canon is to gain certain obvious privileges. The gatekeepers of the fortress of high culture include influential critics, museum directors and their boards of trustees, and far more lowly scholars and teachers. Indeed, a chief enforcer of the canon appears in middlebrow anthologies, those hangers on of high culture that in the Victorian period took the form of pop anthologies like Golden Treasury and today that of major college anthologies in America. To appear in the Norton or Oxford anthology is to have achieved, not exactly greatness but what is more important, certainly - status and accessibility to a reading public. And that is why, of course, it matters that so few women writers have managed to gain entrance to such anthologies. British, Literary Theory & Criticism, The Western Canon and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus~~ Stella-Maria Stejskal~~British~~Literary Theory & Criticism~~9783640097616, en, The Western Canon and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Stella-Maria Stejskal, 9783640097616, GRIN Verlag, 07/07/2008, , , , GRIN Verlag, 07/07/2008<

1, ISBN: 9783640097616

The American Heritage Dictionary has eleven separate definitions of the term canon, which shall be highlighted in chapeter 1, the most relevant of which is 'an authoritative list, as of t… Mehr…

The American Heritage Dictionary has eleven separate definitions of the term canon, which shall be highlighted in chapeter 1, the most relevant of which is 'an authoritative list, as of the works of an author' and 'a basis for judgment; standard; criterion.' Canon is also defined as 'the books of the Bible officially recognized by the Church,' and the idea of a literary canon also implies some such official status. To enter the canon, or more properly, to be entered into the canon is to gain cer The American Heritage Dictionary has eleven separate definitions of the term canon, which shall be highlighted in chapeter 1, the most relevant of which is 'an authoritative list, as of the works of an author' and 'a basis for judgment; standard; criterion.' Canon is also defined as 'the books of the Bible officially recognized by the Church,' and the idea of a literary canon also implies some such official status. To enter the canon, or more properly, to be entered into the canon is to gain certain obvious privileges. The gatekeepers of the fortress of high culture include influential critics, museum directors and their boards of trustees, and far more lowly scholars and teachers. Indeed, a chief enforcer of the canon appears in middlebrow anthologies, those hangers on of high culture that in the Victorian period took the form of pop anthologies like Golden Treasury and today that of major college anthologies in America. To appear in the Norton or Oxford anthology is to have achieved, not exactly greatness but what is more important, certainly - status and accessibility to a reading public. And that is why, of course, it matters that so few women writers have managed to gain entrance to such anthologies. British, Literary Theory & Criticism, The Western Canon and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus~~ Stella-Maria Stejskal~~British~~Literary Theory & Criticism~~9783640097616, en, The Western Canon and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Stella-Maria Stejskal, 9783640097616, GRIN Verlag, 01/01/2008, , , , GRIN Verlag, 01/01/2008<

2008, ISBN: 3640097610

In englischer Sprache. Verlag: GRIN Verlag, PC-PDF, 25 Seiten, 1., Auflage, [GR: 9564 - Nonbooks, PBS / Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft], [SW: - Literaturwissenschaft… Mehr…

In englischer Sprache. Verlag: GRIN Verlag, PC-PDF, 25 Seiten, 1., Auflage, [GR: 9564 - Nonbooks, PBS / Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft], [SW: - Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein], [Ausgabe: 1][PU:GRIN Verlag], [PU: Grin-Verlag, München]<

2008, ISBN: 9783640097616

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2008, ISBN: 9783640097616

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