附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Robert Alter -- Pleasure and change / Frank Kermode -- The passing of the canon / Geoffrey Hartman -- It must be abstract / John Guillory -- The artist and the canon / Carey Perloff -- On the comments of the discussants / Frank Kermode.
摘要:The question of canon has been the subject of debate in academic circles for over 15 years. This book contains two lectures on this important subject by Sir Frank Kermode who reinterprets the question of canon formation in light of two related and central notions: pleasure and change.
