1st Edition
The Role of the Literary Canon in the Teaching of Literature
By Robert Aston
Copyright 2020
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book investigates the role of the idea of the literary canon in the teaching of literature, especially in colleges and secondary schools in the United States. Before the term "canon" was widely used in literary studies, which occurred in the second half of 20 th century when the canon was first seriously viewed as politically and culturally problematic, the idea that some literary texts... Read more
Introduction
Locating the Canon
Chapter One
Suspending the Given
Chapter Two
The Canon, Its Gatekeepers, and the Teaching of Literature
Chapter Three
Power Relations, the Canon, and Resistance
Chapter Four
Assemblages: Lines of Stability and Change in the Canon
Chapter Five
Incompleteness and the Canon in the Teaching of Literature
Biography
Robert J. Aston received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught secondary English for over ten years and in both California and New York; he has also taught at Columbia University’s Teachers College. His research, influenced heavily by the ideas of Michel Foucault, focuses on canon theory, literary knowledge, and assemblage theory.
