Critical theory and the literary canon /E. Dean Kolbas.
Kolbas, E. Dean.
Critical theory and the literary canon /E. Dean Kolbas. - Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, (c)2001. - 1 online resource (vii, 182 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Kolbas stakes out new territory in assessing the war over literary canon formation, a subject that contemporary polemicists have devoted much ink to. Throughout this succinct manuscript, Kolbas ranges through the sociology and politics of culture, aesthetic theory, and literary theory to develop his point that texts not only must should be situated in the historical and material conditions of their production, but also evaluated for their very real aesthetic content. One reason the is an important issue, Kolbas contends, is that the canon is not simply enclosed in the ivory tower of academia; its effects are apparent in a much wider field of cultural production and use. He begins by critiquing the conservative humanist and liberal pluralist positions on the canon, which either assiduously avoid any sociological explanation of the canon or treat texts as stand-ins for particular ideologies. Kolbas is sympathetic to the arguments of Bourdieu et. al. regarding positioning the canon in a wider "field of cultural production" than the university, but argues that theirs are purely sociological explanations of aesthetics (id est, there is no objective aesthetic content) that ignore art's autonomous realm, which he argues --
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9780786742905
Criticism--History--20th century.
Canon (Literature)
Literature, Modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Electronic Books.
PN81 / .C758 2001
Critical theory and the literary canon /E. Dean Kolbas. - Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, (c)2001. - 1 online resource (vii, 182 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Kolbas stakes out new territory in assessing the war over literary canon formation, a subject that contemporary polemicists have devoted much ink to. Throughout this succinct manuscript, Kolbas ranges through the sociology and politics of culture, aesthetic theory, and literary theory to develop his point that texts not only must should be situated in the historical and material conditions of their production, but also evaluated for their very real aesthetic content. One reason the is an important issue, Kolbas contends, is that the canon is not simply enclosed in the ivory tower of academia; its effects are apparent in a much wider field of cultural production and use. He begins by critiquing the conservative humanist and liberal pluralist positions on the canon, which either assiduously avoid any sociological explanation of the canon or treat texts as stand-ins for particular ideologies. Kolbas is sympathetic to the arguments of Bourdieu et. al. regarding positioning the canon in a wider "field of cultural production" than the university, but argues that theirs are purely sociological explanations of aesthetics (id est, there is no objective aesthetic content) that ignore art's autonomous realm, which he argues --
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780786742905
Criticism--History--20th century.
Canon (Literature)
Literature, Modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Electronic Books.
PN81 / .C758 2001