Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies

Author:   Joseph Csicsila ,  Tom Quirk
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
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Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 May 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Scholars have long noted the role that college literary anthologies play in the rising and falling reputations of American authors. Canons by Consensus examines this classroom fixture in detail to challenge and correct a number of assumptions about the development of the literary canon throughout the 20th century. Joseph Csicsila analyzes more than 80 anthologies published since 1919 and traces not only the critical fortunes of individual authors, but also the treatment of entire genres and groupings of authors by race, region, gender, and formal approach. In doing so, he calls into question accusations of deliberate or inadvertent sexism and racism. Selections by anthology editors, Csicsila demonstrates, have always been governed far more by prevailing trends in academic criticism than by personal bias. Academic anthologies are found to constitute a rich and often overlooked resource for studying American literature, as well as an irrefutable record of the academy’s changing literary tastes throughout the last century.

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Author:   Joseph Csicsila ,  Tom Quirk
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
Imprint:   The University of Alabama Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.446kg
ISBN:  

9780817358679


ISBN 10:   0817358676
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 May 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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This is a landmark resource. . . . Professor Csicsila's most important achievement is to clarify the ways in which the canon of the first part of the 20th century has remained largely intact, still central to the visions of Americanists as a new century begins. -George Perkins, editor of The American Tradition in Literature Csicsila's excellent study astutely discerns the shifting paradigms in nearly a century of college classroom texts, in the process overturning many notions about the supposed biases of literary anthology editors. Canons by Consensus reveals how a teaching tool long taken for granted can serve as an invaluable index to academic movements and fads. -Alan Gribben, author of Mark Twain's Library: A Reconstruction


This is a landmark resource... Professor Csicsila's most important achievement is to clarify the ways in which the canon of the first part of the 20th century has remained largely intact, still central to the visions of Americanists as a new century begins. -George Perkins, editor of The American Tradition in Literature Csicsila's excellent study astutely discerns the shifting paradigms in nearly a century of college classroom texts, in the process overturning many notions about the supposed biases of literary anthology editors. Canons by Consensus reveals how a teaching tool long taken for granted can serve as an invaluable index to academic movements and fads. -Alan Gribben, author of Mark Twain's Library: A Reconstruction


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Joseph Csicsila is Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University where he was recognized with the 2002 Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching. Tom Quirk is Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, and the author of Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination.

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