...Raoul R. Ibargüen Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Raoul R. Ibargiien Celine, Miller, and the American Canon When I was invited to discuss Henry Mil­ ler s relation to Celine, 1 planned to begin by discussing instead their common relation to the hegemonic mode of critical...

...Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Master s Pieces: On Canon Formation and the African-American Tradition ^A^illiam Bennett and Allan Bloom, the dy­ namic duo of the new cultural right, have become the easy targets of the cultural left which I am defining here loosely and gener­...

...Grover Smith, Jr. The Making of the Auden Canon . By Beach Joseph Warren . Minneapolis : The University of Minnesota Press , 1957 . Pp. x , 315 . $4.75 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 380 The South Atlantic Quarterly lawyer is held only to a reasonable...

...Joseph A. Porter Joseph A. Porter Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Canonization of Heterosexuality Relations between Marlowe and Shake­ speare, particularly as manifested in the character of Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, serve as an index of the Western canoniza­ tion of heterosexuality...

...George A. Kennedy George A. Kennedy Classics and Canons In the controversy between neoconserva­ tives and postmodernists, teachers of Greek and Latin have found themselves in a curious position. Their central texts the Homeric poems, Greek tragedy and historiography, the Platonic dialogues...

... forces animate black literary and critical texts that are positioned, by will or by force, outside or against the contemporary black canon? I address these questions through analyses of two divergent narratives of the civil rights era loss of black leadership. I contend that this loss—marked most...

... canon and brings ecocriticism to Caribbean studies through the rehabilitation of Césaire. Ultimately, the essay argues that, as the spokes-theorist of Tropiques, Césaire markedly articulated meaningful prefaces to ongoing debates on entangled constructions of identity and land consciousness in Caribbean...

.... Instead, envisioned in canonical neoliberal texts are specific and particular conceptualizations of markets, states, and households, which means that neoliberalism is fundamentally about the remaking of states and households in the name of markets rather than about markets per se. As a result, retaining...

...Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Pedagogy in the Context of an Antihomophobic Project ^Contemporary discussions of the question of the literary canon among those of us for whom the canon is a living question tend to be structured...

... and the institutional level the method disintegrated much earlier than is commonly assumed, and the very moment of the canon s crystalliza­ tion coincided with its opening to dislocation and decay, well before socialist realism was defined as a historically open system. From the very outset of his Problemy teorii...

... are moral and political.1 More specifi­ cally, the various questions that have been raised recently about either defending, recon­ structing, or eliminating a particular canon in higher education can only be understood within a broader range of political and theo­ retical considerations that bear directly...

... hypotheses. We differ about the meanings of words, no matter how fervently theorists call them signifiers. I prefer the terms codes and canons to divide rules according to this otherwise shibboleth. Codes cannot, if you are a nor­ mal member of the culture, be otherwise. Canons can, depending...

... within literary studies, the field that Hall abandoned for the nastiness. In what Moretti (2000a: 55n1) called “a companion piece” to his contribution to the fortieth- anniversary issue of the New Left Review, he asked what it might mean for literary studies to move beyond the world canon, and he...

... capable of diverse inter­ pretations, and questions were bound to arise, as we are in a position to appreciate iafter watching a president-elect waiting to assume office. The book has two distinct parts: the first traces the definition of the constitutional significance in canon law of the various acts...

... rid of this talk, and urged educators to think more about growth and less about truth. This left is following his advice by changing the canon in various disciplines, not by reference to mythical stan­ dards of excellence but simply by reference to what it now seems especially important to tell...

..., as we are in a position to appreciate iafter watching a president-elect waiting to assume office. The book has two distinct parts: the first traces the definition of the constitutional significance in canon law of the various acts that made a bishop, and the second (using examples taken mostly from...

... be unusually expressive and moving. The very concept of literature is normative: it includes The Im­ portance of Being Earnest but not Box and Cox, The Ambassadors but not The Hound ofthe Baskervilles. The formation of the literary canon is evidently modeled on the formation of the scriptural canon in ways...

..., a devoted reader of the whole of Donne may see within the canon of the secular love poems a hierarchy of values that reveals Donne s worship at the shrine of the Neoplatonic Venus.® A student of Donne and Shakespeare, Mrs. Doebler teaches Humanities at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, where she...

...Gerald Graff Gerald Graff Teach the Conflicts teach or not to teach the great books? High culture or popular culture? Classics or commercials? Western lit or Westerns as lit? Open canons or closed American minds? King Lear or King Kong? Rimbaud or Rambo? Plato or Puzo? These are just a few...

... in 1625. He catalogued those burned for witchcraft: The victims of the funeral pyres are for the most part male witches. Half the city must be implicated: for already professors, law students, pastors, canons, vicars, and monks have been arrested and burned. . . . The Chancellor and his wife...