ABSTRACT
Anthologies , mostly of non-translated literature , are a mainstay of debate about the canon. Conclusions are normally drawn from the pars pro toto ('part to whole ' ) relationship between selected corpus and total relevant corpus, without regard to the relationship between the selected corpus and the remaining part. This relationship, however, may be of one of three types from which conclusions may also be drawn: the selected corpus is meant to supplant the remainder - pars contra residuum ( ' the part against the rest ' ) ; the selected part is meant to lead the reader to an enjoyment of the remainder - pars ad residuum ( ' the part towards the rest ' ) ; the relationship between the selected part and the remainder has not been fixed a priori. Atten tion to the latter three relationships helps to distinguish anthologizing from different though related activities as follows.
