I been reading my text for about three days now and still can't figure out just exactly what a literary canon is. Can somebody help me?
2007-02-21 02:42:59 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
The literary canon is an officially sanctioned list consisting entirely of white male writers from a European tradition. The traditionalists are happy with it, the revisionists claim the canon does not reflect American diversity. They simply wish to loosen the prevailing ideological conformity.
2007-02-21 09:01:48 · answer #1 · answered by Eden* 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The literary canon is genuinely a itemizing of all literary works seen to be completely time-honored as being of the utmost high quality. that's a itemizing of all the "super Books", the Classics.
2016-10-02 12:10:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically, it is those books which are considered to be of cultural and literaray importance: Beowolf, Vatek, Pamela, anything by the great authors, both old and new.
2007-02-21 02:58:36 · answer #3 · answered by darestobelieve 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋