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Confronting Our Canons
Joan Lipman Brown
其他書名
Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century
出版Bucknell University Press, 2010
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / Hispanic & LatinoLiterary Criticism / European / Spanish & Portuguese
ISBN08387576779780838757673
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=l_OMfcj1jMgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"An Introductory chapter explains the power of canons and acquaints readers with the book. Chapter 1 contextualizes today's issues by reviewing the history of canon formation over time, crystallizing the evaluative and sociocultural functions of canons. Chapter 2 theorizes the types of canons that currently exist, from the dual internal canons in each person's mind to consensus in the fields of English and Spanish. Chapter 3 describes the canon in Spanish and Latin American literature, apprehended through a late twentieth-century statistical analysis of required graduate reading lists; this chapter also provides a guided tour of masterpieces in Spanish, nearly all of which are available in English translation. Chapter 4 exposes this canon's missing contents and uses readinglist data from the twenty-first century to trace the persistence of gaps. Chapter 5 draws out the implications of statistical findings to chart the factors that make a work, and by extension an author, canonical. Chapter 6 reviews canons past and present, then advocates the disciplinary construction of a continually evolving consensus canon for Spanish and Latin American graduate education. While these recommendations feature Hispanic studies as a model, they are applicable to all literary fields and to other areas in the humanities."--BOOK JACKET.