With the canon debate, prominent in literary criticism since the early 1970s, as the sounding board, the study aims at investigating and discussing in critical perspective the function of considerations to do with canon for literary criticism at the formation stage. It focuses on the interaction between a critic's canonical preferences ('versions of the past') and his desire for improved cultural and/or aesthetic conditions ('visions of the future') in the criticism of Eliot, Leavis, Frye and Bloom.

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Book Title: Versions of the Past — Visions of the Future
Book Subtitle: The Canonical in the Criticism of T. S. Eliot, F. R. Leavis, Northrop Frye and Harold Bloom
Authors: Lars Ole Sauerberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25030-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-56474-5Published: 29 October 1996
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-25032-5Published: 12 January 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-25030-1Published: 27 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 216
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Canons in the Making

T. S. Eliot: The Constant Modification of Tradition

F. R. Leavis: Elitist in Pursuit of Common Values

Northrop Frye: The Grand Vision of a Liberal-Arts Education

Harold Bloom: Swerving into Ever-Renewed Strength

Literary History, Criticism and Canon

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