Table of Contents

Introduction: 'Canon, Repertoire, or, What's in a Metaphor?' 'Literature and the Dignity of Man' (1709); R.Steele Selections from the 'Pleasures of the Imagination' series (1711); J.Addison 'Of the Standard of Taste' (1757); D.Hume 'Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare' (1765); S.Johnson 'We Never Quarrel About Religion' (1828); R.J.Iroquois 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time' (1865); M.Arnold 'Hebraism and Hellenism' (1869); M.Arnold 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' (1919)' T.S.Eliot 'Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture' (1930); F. R.Leavis 'Theses on the Philosophy of History' (1940); W.Benjamin 'Reading and the Growth of the Mind' (1940); M.Adler 'Odysseus' Scar' (1953); E.Auerbach 'National Culture' (1961); F.Fanon 'Commitment' (1962); T.Adorno 'On the Abolition of the English Department' (1968); N.W.Thiong'o 'Colonialist Criticism' (1974); C.Achebe 'The Female Tradition' (1977); E.Showalter 'A Map for Rereading: Or, Gender and the Interpretation of Literary Texts' (1980); A.Kolodny 'Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors' (1981); N.Baym 'The Field of Cultural Production' (1983); P.Bourdieu 'To Reclaim a Legacy: Text of Report on Humanities in Education' (1984); W.Bennett 'Sexual Politics and Critical Judgment' (1985); E.Meese ''But is it Any Good?': The Institutionalization of Literary Value' (1985); J.Tomkins 'Rise of the Fragmented Curriculum' (1987); E.D.Hirsch 'Introduction: Our Virtue', 'The Student and the University', The Conclusion', (1987); A.Bloom 'Volume I: Introduction' (1987); M.Bernal 'Contingencies of Value' (1988); B.Hernstein Smith From History and Value (1989); F.Kermode 'Native American Literature and the Canon' (1989); A.Krupat 'Canons and Differences' (1990); C.Altieri From Death of Literature (1990); A.Kernan 'Preface' 'Speaking Against the Humanities' (1990); R.Kimball 'Canon Fathers and Myth Universe' (1990); L.Robinson 'The Shaping of the American Literary Canon' (1991); P.Lauter 'Canon to the Right of Me' (1991); K.Pollitt From Loose Canons (1992); H.L.Gates 'Turning Conflict into Community' (1992); G.Graff 'Canonical and Noncanonical: The Current Debate,' (1993); J.Guillory 'Rites of Interpretation' (1993); V.Lambropoulos 'An Elegy for the Canon' (1994); H.Bloom 'Higher Education and American Liberalism' (1994); M.Bérubé 'Connecting Empire to Secular Interpretation' (1994); E.Said From 'To Whom To Give To' (1995); J.Derrida From The Great Books (1996); D.Denby 'Ancient Myths of Cultural Dependancy' (1996); M.Lefkowitz 'The 'New' Liberal Education' (1997); M.C.Nussbaum From Symptoms of Culture (1998); M.Garber 'On the Inspirational Value of Great Works of Literature' (1998); R.Rorty 'A Flock of Cultures: A Trivial Proposal' (1998); R.Scholes 'Canons, Creativity, and Literary Expression' (2000); R.Alter From 'Gatsby', from Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003); A.Nafisi

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LEE MORRISSEY is Professor of English at Clemson University, USA.

Reviews

"It would be hard for me to overestimate my enthusiasm for the extremely timely and useful book that Morrissey has put together...He has picked the best of the best-known contributions, and also strayed someway afield to bring in pieces that will enrich debate...I honestly can't think of one important piece in the canon debates that belongs in Morrissey's table of contents that he hasn't already though of." - Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Past-President, Modernist Studies Association