Thursday, April 9, 2009

canonical ideas

I suppose if I had to explain the way I view the canon as an image or metaphor, I'd describe it as a spider's web. The web in its entirety would be the complete canon with all its different qualifications (different periods to different cultures), and each individual strand or section would make up the various smaller canons, such as the Colby-Sawyer canon or the American canon.

Continuing with the web theme, one may also get "stuck" in it (the idea of the canon), especially if that person is a student of Harold Bloom! (just an example...)

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