Philosophical biases and political considerations. Many modern critics and teachers argue that women, minorities,Īnd non-Western writers are left out of the literary canon unfairly.Īdditionally, the canon has always been determined in part by Traditionally, those works considered canonicalĪre typically restricted to dead white European male authors. NB:ĭo not confuse the spelling of cannon (the big gun) withĬanon (the official collection of literary works). Have gained wide acceptance as authentic Shakespearean worksīeyond the thirty-six plays contained in the First Folio. ( Pericles and the Two Noble Kinsmen) that Likewise, the Shakespearean canon has only two apocryphal plays Tale," which has been mistakenly attributed to him in the past. Genuine products of said author, such as the "Chaucer canon" or the "Shakespeare canon."Ĭhaucer's canon includes The Canterbury Tales, for instance,īut it does not include the apocryphal work, "The Plowman's To the writings of an author that scholars generally accepted as Traditionally thought to be suitable for admiration and study. "the canon" denotes the entire body of literature Included in the classroom and published textbooks. In anthologies that have come to be considered standard or traditionally Typically use the word canon to refer to those works The term "canon" applied to the list of books to be includedĪs authentic biblical doctrine in the Hebrew and Christian Bible,Īs opposed to apocryphal works (works of dubious, (1)Īn approved or traditional collection of works. (from Grk kanon, meaning "reed" or "measuring Play should be considered a comedy, history, or tragedy. States, leaving modern readers in some doubt as to whether the Has a title page existing in both cancelled and uncancelled The first quarto of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida One angle to produce broader and narrower lines, which in combinationĪppear to overlap one another to form strap-work"Ī bibliographical term referring to a leaf which is substitutedįor one removed by the printers because of an error. Text a series of strokes made by holding a quill constant at Top of the page and descenders at the bottom of the justified Or introductory initial, or developing from ascenders at the Work, usually developing from or used to make up an important WORK: In medieval manuscripts, this is (as Kathleen Scott Which is a calque for the French ballon d'essai (Algeo Provides the example of the English phrase trial balloon, May or may not make literal sense in the new language. Longer foreign expression and then combining them in a way that Others do not indicateĪn expression formed by individually translating parts of a Or "a slicing." Some editors will indicate a caesuraīy inserting a slash (/) in the middle of a poetic line. The term caesura comes from the Latin "a cutting" Within lines of poetry-an important part of poetic rhythm. (plural: caesurae): A pause separating phrases Or a noun phrase, "our inalienable rights." Unit, such as a prepositional phrase, "of parting day" Group is a coherent group of words spoken as a single rhythmical The natural rhythm of language depending on the position of Instance an interrogation or an exhortation. The melodic pattern just before the end of a sentence or phrase-for Of the Lansdowne 851 manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Common cadels include pen-drawn faces or grotesques.Įxamples include the faces appearing in the initial letters Gift a little something extra"): A small addition or "extra" (Dutch cadel and/or French cadeau, meaning "a To the use of words that combine sharp, harsh, hissing, or unmelodious (Greek, "bad sound"): The term in poetry refers Vocabulary terms are listed alphabetically. Important concepts and vocabulary that we will cover during
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