Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface Foreward Introduction: The Canon Debate More than Just a Rule: The Early History of the Canon A Whole World of Reading: The Modern History of the Canon Sir Ernst Gombrich and the Functionalist Canon Northrop Frye and the Visionary Canon Frank Kermode and the Canon of Interpretation Edward Said and the Open Canon Conclusion - Cultural Studies: Towards a New Canon? Notes Bibliography Index

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This Bloomsbury Academic Collection consists of a wide-range of classic research studies in Literary Criticism.

About the Author

Professor Jan Gorak teaches at he University of Denver. His publications include God the Artist (1987), Critic of Crisis (1987) and The Alien Mind of Raymond Williams (1988).

Reviews

A first-rate book, written with impressive analytical power.
*Journal of British Studies*

Although the American debate about the canon in 1991 did not end there, thanks to Horak's book, the Russian reader can get a very vivid idea of The most important theories of the canon of the second half of the 20th century, which are still little known and unclaimed in Russia.
*Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie (Bloomsbury Translation)*