How Many Canons Do We Need? World Literature, National Literature, European Literature

D’haen, Theo

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“…On this hypothesis, the recent discussion about making all archived written texts from all cultures and times (estimated at 32 million books and 750 million articles) available on the Internet through digitization, and doing it within the next generation (Vandendorpe 2013: 209), is necessarily a major factor in explaining the renewed interest in the canon concept, both inside and outside the academe. This interest is manifest, for example, in the recent success of canon publications (anthologies and encyclopedias) in European publishing (d' Haen 2011).…”

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The Literary Canon in the Age of New Media

Backe

2015

Poetics Today

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The article offers a comparative overview of the diverging courses of the canon debate in Anglophone and Germanophone contexts. While the Anglophone canon debate has focused on the politics of canon composition, the Germanophone debate has been more concerned with the malleability and mediality of the canon. In a development that has largely gone unnoticed outside German-speaking countries, new approaches to discussing current and future processes of canonization have been developed in recent years. One pivotal element of this process has been a thorough reevaluation of new media as a touchstone for both defining literature in the digital age and inquiring into the mechanisms of contemporary canon formation. The article thus aims at introducing the Germanophone approach to canon developed in recent years and its results to a larger scholarly community.

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“…In some European countries, especially the Netherlands (d' Haen 2011) and Germany (Herrmann 2012), the canon debate has taken a different turn. German discussions of canon since 1997 have distanced themselves from the cultural studies perspective (Uerlings and Patrut 2012: 8 -9).…”

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The Literary Canon in the Age of New Media

Backe

2015

Poetics Today

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Canon Studies in China: Traditions, Modernization, and Revisions in the Global Context

Hui

2021

Poetics Today

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Though particular texts have long held culturally foundational authority, debates over the idea of a canon and the texts that are to compose it are a much more recent phenomenon, one that originated in the United States and quickly spread to other countries. The present article situates China in the international trend of canon studies by tracing how the Chinese conceptualization of the canon was modernized in the 1990s by Western ideas when canon studies were introduced to China by Dutch scholar Douwe W. Fokkema. While embracing the Western notion of the canon as always in a dynamic process of change that involves aesthetic qualities as well as a power mechanism, Chinese scholars, under the influence of culturally specific practices of literary criticism, the Confucian principle of the golden mean, and the more recent Marxist teaching of dialectical thinking, refuse to replicate Western discourses, instead adhering to a more dialectical treatment of the mutually antagonistic positions. Moreover, China's rising international status and its pursuit of wider global influence have led Chinese scholars to approach literary (re)historiography as an opportunity to showcase Chinese scholarship and to enhance China's national image.

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Rethinking the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art in the Internet Age

Feldman

2016

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History

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The formation and perpetuation of intellectual canons – as consensually agreed upon corpora considered most significant and representative of a time, place or person – rely heavily on closed systems of knowledge. The bound-paper book exemplifies such a closed system and has been a primary form of constructing and disseminating canons of ancient works. The Internet, however, challenges the very structuring principles of knowledge production inherent in books, offering potentially boundless networks of unorchestrated knowledge bits. As scholars, teachers, and students turn more to the Internet for publication, research, and learning, sharply defined canons face disruption. This article analyzes some of the structuring principles of knowledge production and dissemination in the specific case of ancient Near Eastern art, first considering traditional book-based textbooks. These textbooks follow a model of linear temporal development that unfolds from the first to the last page. It then explores the academic trend toward edited, multi-authored compendia as a concurrent development with the open-ended, networked structure of the Internet. Both vehicles of knowledge production offer more diverse sets of works and multivocality; the Internet in particular permits a radical break from authored and edited narratives. Last, the article considers some of the possibilities, as well as limitations, inherent in the Internet, presenting several existing Internet-based platforms with a specific focus on pedogogy, in order to consider the implications and consequences for knowledge production and dissemination in the Digital Age.

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How Many Canons Do We Need? World Literature, National Literature, European Literature

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The Literary Canon in the Age of New Media

The Literary Canon in the Age of New Media

Canon Studies in China: Traditions, Modernization, and Revisions in the Global Context

Rethinking the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art in the Internet Age

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