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Aligning Curricular Canons with Academic Programs

Aligning Curricular Canons with Academic Programs ALIGNING CURRICULAR CANONS WITH ACADEMIC PROGRAMS Wendell V. Harris In 1991 an essay of mine entitled "Canonicity" appeared in PMLA amidst what had become an increasingly complex, emotional, and ideological debate on a variety of questions about Uterary canons. The canon debate began quietly enough and gained prominence rather slowly: in Jan Gorak's important study, 77ie Making of the Modern Canon, he dates the beginning of the controversy to the programs organized for the 1979 EngUsh Institute meeting by LesUe Fiedler and Houston Baker, Jr., and course find precursors, but major awareness of feminist concerns about the canon probably should be dated only slightly earlier with the publication of Elaine Showalter's A Literature of Their Own (1977); 1979 was the year in which Mary Jacobus's Women Writing and Writing about Women and Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic appeared. At the time I wrote "Canonicity," I assumed that within a few years the issue would be sufficiently settled, one way or another, to lose its prominence; after a dozen years the controversy seemed to have reached its height. In fact, 1991 did turn out to be an important year in the canon debate: not only Jan http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Aligning Curricular Canons with Academic Programs

Harris, Wendell V.
The Comparatist , Volume 24 (1) – Oct 3, 2000
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ALIGNING CURRICULAR CANONS WITH ACADEMIC PROGRAMS Wendell V. Harris In 1991 an essay of mine entitled "Canonicity" appeared in PMLA amidst what had become an increasingly complex, emotional, and ideological debate on a variety of questions about Uterary canons. The canon debate began quietly enough and gained prominence rather slowly: in Jan Gorak's important study, 77ie Making of the Modern Canon, he dates the beginning of the controversy to the programs organized for the 1979 EngUsh Institute meeting by LesUe Fiedler and Houston Baker, Jr., and course find precursors, but major awareness of feminist concerns about the canon probably should be dated only slightly earlier with the publication of Elaine Showalter's A Literature of Their Own (1977); 1979 was the year in which Mary Jacobus's Women Writing and Writing about Women and Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic appeared. At the time I wrote "Canonicity," I assumed that within a few years the issue would be sufficiently settled, one way or another, to lose its prominence; after a dozen years the controversy seemed to have reached its height. In fact, 1991 did turn out to be an important year in the canon debate: not only Jan

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