The Literary Canon in the Age of New Media

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ID5076083
AuthorsHans-Joachim Backe (0000-0002-0091-2574, IT University of Copenhagen, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume36
Issue1-2
Pages1-31
Publication date2015-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePoetics Today (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/03335372-2879757
OpenAlexW2259047790
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited33

The article offers a comparative overview of the diverging courses of the canon debate in Anglophone and Germanophone contexts. While the Anglophone canon debate has focused on the politics of canon composition, the Germanophone debate has been more concerned with the malleability and mediality of the canon. In a development that has largely gone unnoticed outside German-speaking countries, new approaches to discussing current and future processes of canonization have been developed in recent years. One pivotal element of this process has been a thorough reevaluation of new media as a touchstone for both defining literature in the digital age and inquiring into the mechanisms of contemporary canon formation. The article thus aims at introducing the Germanophone approach to canon developed in recent years and its results to a larger scholarly community

Art · Canon · Literature · Digital Games and Media · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism

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