Debating the Canon: A Reader from Addison to Nafisi
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
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DEBATING THE CANON: A READER FROM ADDISON TO NAFISI
© Lee Morrissey, 2005. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2005 978-1-4039-6818-0 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published in 2005 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-4039-6820-3 ISBN 978-1-137-04916-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-04916-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: September 2005 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Contents
Lee Morrissey, Introduction: “The Canon Brawl: Arguments over the Canon” 1. Joseph Addison (1672–1719): from The Tatler, No. 108 (Thursday, December 15, to Saturday, December 17, 1709) 2. David Hume (1711–1776): from “Of the Standard of Taste,” Essays (1757) 3. Samuel Johnson (1709–1784): from “Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare” (1765) 4. Red Jacket (c.1750–1830): “Why not all agree, as you can all read the book?” from a speech to the Boston Missionary Society (1828) 5. Matthew Arnold (1822–1888): from “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time,” Essays in Criticism (1865) 6. T.S. Eliot (1888–1965): “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” The Sacred Wood (1919) 7. F.R. Leavis (1895–1978): from Mass Civilization and Minority Culture (1933) 8. Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001): “Reading and the Growth of the Mind,” How to Read a Book (1940) 9. Erich Auerbach (1892–1957): from “Odysseus’ Scar,” Mimesis (1946; trans. 1953) 10. Leo Strauss (1899–1973): from “Persecution and the Art of Writing,” Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952) 11. Frantz Fanon (1925–1961): from “On National Culture,” Wretched of the Earth (1961) 12. Theodor Adorno (1903–1969): from “Commitment: The Politics of Autonomous Art,” New Left Review (1962) 13. Chinua Achebe (1930–): “Colonialist Criticism,” Hopes and Impediments (1974, 1988) 14. Elaine Showalter (1941–): from “The Female Tradition,” A Literature of Their Own (1977) 15. Annette Kolodny (1941–): from “A Map for Rereading: Or, Gender and the Interpretation of Literary Texts,” New Literary History (1980)
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Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002): from “The Field of Cultural Production, Or: The Economic World Reversed,” The Field of Cultural Production (1983) William J. Benn
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