Role of the Literary Canon in the Teaching of Literature

"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 20th century when the canon was first seriously viewed as politically and culturally problematic, the idea that some literary texts were more worthy of being studied than others existed since the beginning of the discipline of the teaching of literature in the 1800s"--

Year

2020

Language

English

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group

Editions

6

Pages

200

ISBN

9781000078909

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