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100 1 _aKolbas, E. Dean.
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245 1 0 _aCritical theory and the literary canon /E. Dean Kolbas.
260 _aBoulder, Colo. :
_bWestview Press,
_c(c)2001.
300 _a1 online resource (vii, 182 pages)
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520 0 _aKolbas 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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650 0 _aCanon (Literature)
650 0 _aLiterature, Modern
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