Return to Tiraboschi: On Italian Literary Canon Formation and National Identity

2015 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-304
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Gazzola
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Canon Formation

Poems and Festivals, Art and Artefact and the Commemoration of Robert Burns,c.1844–c.1896

2014 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Pittock
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Canon Formation ◽  
Literary Reputation

The following article examines the major Burns festivals of the nineteenth century, particularly the Ayr Festival of 1844, in the context of the wider creation of cultural memory through the monumental celebration of national heroes in these years. It argues both that what we now think of as Burns’ literary reputation was substantially created by iconic objects, celebrations and events, rather than literary criticism, and that the cultural memory of Burns was ultimately beyond the control of those who sought to stage-manage it. Given the centrality of Burns in Victorian Scotland, both conclusions have much wider implications both for literary canon formation and banal manifestations of cultural and national identity.

scholarly journals Who We Are Is What Makes Us Laugh: Humour as Discourse on Identity and Hegemony

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Ylagan
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
National Identities ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Comic Strips ◽  
The Status ◽  
Popular Representations

There exists a sociocultural function to humour that is geared towards maintaining order through a subversion (or inversion) of the more serious, structured status quo, and while there is a pragmatic side to the dispensation of humour across any given society, humour can also serve a fundamentally ontological function in determining and representing a group’s identity. Though notions of social organization and culture exist and are perpetuated primarily within a group’s literary canon, as espoused for example in the privileging of genres such as the epic or the novel as loci of national identity, this paper argues that such identities can be just as effectively – if not better – constructed through popular representations in humour, especially in satirical content found in “ephemeral” mediums such as comic strips. Such representations in turn can be mobilized to complement or even dismantle the status quo and offer alternative paradigms of understanding national identities and cultural affiliations.

Au sujet d’une nouvelle histoire littéraire francophone transnationale

Revue Romane ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mickaëlle Cedergren
Keyword(s):  
French Language ◽  
Reception Studies ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Canon Formation ◽  
Reception Study ◽  
Academic System ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations ◽  
Literary System ◽  
Language Literature

Abstract This article considers the Francophone literary canon based on a transnational reception study. It focuses on the circulation of French language literature within the Swedish academic system during the last thirty years. A longitudinal empirical study of bachelor and doctoral dissertations in French between 1986 and 2016 allows the author to examine the dynamics of canon formation and renewal, as well as the role of universities in this process, particularly in regard to the creation of a canon of Francophone literary works. In response to recent scholarly anthologies which have debated the Francophone canon, this study is able to confirm the existence of Francophone classics. Finally, it is argued that further reception studies focusing on areas outwith the Francophone literary system will be of prime importance if the question of the Francophone canon is to be fully assessed beyond the immediate context of the Hexagone.

scholarly journals From a double margin: Anglophone translation of women's writing from Croatia and Serbia

Reci, Beograd ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Sibelan Forrester
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Canon Formation ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Women’S Writing

This article examines Anglophone translations of women's writing from Eastern Europe with particular focus on writers from Croatia and Serbia. After outlining the presences and absences of these women writers in Anglophone translations, it raises some questions about the significance of gender in literary canon formation and the emergence of literary works into a global context through translation.

scholarly journals The Mediatized Zlatan, Made by Sweden

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristine Sarrimo
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Canon Formation ◽  
Mass Market ◽  
Digital Network ◽  
National Icon

Abstract The present article analyses the mediatization of the brand and celebrity Zlatan Ibrahimović using the reception and marketing of the footballer’s life story and autobiography as its main case. It is shown that the construction of a myth such as Ibrahimović transcends the materiality of the book as well as geographical, vernacular and media boundaries, as it is constituted as content in a digital network that produces signification. This ‘Zlatan content’ is framed by national Swedish values and a traditional Western myth of individual masculine excellence. It is also marked by emotions, class and race, telling a tale about the marginalized emotive immigrant becoming both a national icon and part of an imaginary Western ghetto experience and global literary canon formation. It is argued that the performance of excitable speech acts is crucial in the mediatization and branding of mass market literature and celebrities such as Ibrahimović.

Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
David Punter ◽  
John Guillory
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Canon Formation

‘[L]et a girl read’: Periodicals and Women’s Literary Canon Formation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Scarborough King
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Canon Formation ◽  
White Space ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Northanger Abbey ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Women's Reading

Examining periodical articles by both men and women in the second half of the eighteenth century, Rachel King argues that the periodical was a key extra-academic site for the discussion of women’s reading material and, simultaneously, the elevation of the novel. The traditional division of the periodical as a masculine space and the novel as a feminised one was problematic, of course, but it was also productive, in that the process of prescriptive reviewing embraced by periodicals such as the Critical (1756–1817) and Monthly (1749–1844) of necessity elevated some works above others. An overlooked tool for this process was the list, which offered practical advantages, as it produced easy copy and created visually appealing white space on the page. As periodical authors offered prescriptive lists, novelists like Austen in Northanger Abbey (1818) pushed back against such constraints with their own syllabi, a process that played a key role in the ongoing incorporation of the novel into the literary canon.

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