Canon Vs. Culture

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Half Title
3. Title Page
4. Copyright
5. Dedication
6. Contents
7. Acknowledgments
8. Introduction
9. Part One: Why the Revolution Happened
   1. Opening the American Mind: Reflections on the “Canon” Controversy
   2. Canon Fodder: Women’s Studies and the (British) Literary Canon
   3. Curricular Shifts in the Study and Teaching of French
10. Part Two: Old Canons / New Disciplines
    1. No Contest, No History: The Sociological Canon
    2. Accounting for Differences: Teaching and Researching African Literatures
    3. The Politics of Poetics: Creative Writing Programs and the Double Canon of Contemporary Poetry
11. Part Three: The Canon as Historical Phenomenon
    1. The Origin of the Concept of a Canon and Its Application to the Greek and Latin Classics
    2. The Land Where the Canon B(l)ooms: Observations on the German Canon and Its Opponents, There and Here
    3. Canon and the Traditions of Musical Culture
12. Part Four: Old Canons / New Readings
    1. Dances with Daffodils: Wordsworth and the Postcolonial Canon
    2. Intertextuality and Dialogue: New Approaches to the Scriptural Canon
    3. Reflections on the Eighteenth-Century Canon: Disciplinary Change in the Humanities
13. Contributors
14. Index