Canon Formation

Prendergast, Thomas A.

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“…The traditional label for this intractable epistemological uncertainty, Prendergast tells us, is 'wonder', which the poem both evokes and 'meditates on' in a way that teaches us that 'demystification is never quite complete'. 33 Having then, like Miller, isolated a canonical textual quality (which, as a kind of inscrutability in which meanings proliferate because they are always just out of reach, shares a family resemblance to the semiotic density that Miller identifies in Chaucer's text), at the end of his essay Prendergast seems to acknowledge -again like Miller but more obliquely -that this identification is somehow insufficient. By itself, it amounts to the claim that canonical texts are those that possess the quality that make them canonical.…”

Section: Defending Canonicitymentioning

confidence: 99%

4 Canonicity

Meyer‐Lee¹

2023

The Problem of Literary Value

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The return of 'the' canon, the high canon of Western masterpieces, represents the return of an order in which my people were subjugated, the voiceless, the invisible, the unrepresented, and the unrepresentable. Who would return us to that medieval nevernever land?-Henry Louis Gates, Jr Indeed, the minute the word 'judgmental' became pejorative, we should have known we made a misstep. Which isn't for a moment to concede that anybody actually stopped judging. Literary evaluation merely ceased to be a professionally accredited act.-Henry Louis Gates, Jr, later in the same volume 1 Canonicity

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Section: Defending Canonicitymentioning

confidence: 99%