ABSTRACT
Canon Vs. Culture explores the consequences of one of the main educational shifts of the last quarter century-- the changes from academic inquiry conducted through a selected list of accepted authorities to an investigation of the cultural operations of an entire society.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|40 pages
Why the Revolution Happened
part Two|62 pages
Old Canons/New Disciplines
chapter |22 pages
The Politics of Poetics
Creative Writing Programs and the Double Canon of Contemporary Poetry
part Three|48 pages
The Canon as Historical Phenomenon
chapter |18 pages
The Land Where the Canon B(l)ooms:
Observations on the German Canon and Its Opponents, There and Here
part Four|62 pages
Old Canons / New Readings
