Canon vs. culture : reflections on the current debate

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Acknowledgments ... ix Introduction ... xi William E. Cain/ Opening the American mind: Reflections on the "canon" controversy ...3 Jessica Munns/ Canon fodder: Women's studies and the (British) literary Canon ...17 Philip Thody/ Curricular shifts in the study and teaching of French ... 29 Geoffrey Hawthorn / No contest, no history: The sociological Canon ... 43 Bernth Lindfors/ Accounting for differences: Teaching and researching African literatures ... 55 Sandra Lea Meek/ The politics of poetics: Creative writing programs and the double Canon of contemporary poetry ... 81 George A. Kennnedy/The origin of the concept of a Canon and its application to the Greek and Latin Classics ... 105 Jeffrey L. Sammons/ The land where the Canon B(l)ooms: Observations on the German canon and its opponents, there and here ... 117 William Weber/ Canon and the traditions of musical culture ... 135 J. Edward Chamberlin/ Dances with daffodils: Wordsworth and the postcolonial Canon ... 153 James A. Sanders/Intertextuality and dialogue: New approaches to the scriptural Canon ... 175 Jan Gorak/ Reflections on the eighteenth-century Canon: Disciplinary change in the Humanities ... 191 Contributors ... 213 Index ... 217