Canons and Wisdoms
ISBN: 9781512801293
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Canon (Literature); Poetry -- History and criticism; Wisdom in literature; Literature -- Aesthetics;

An eloquent and original contribution to the ongoing debate about the canon. It is the work of an experienced, erudite, and individualistic scholar working at the intersections of philosophy and literary theory and criticism.


Albert Cook was Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, English, and Classics at Brown University. He was the author of many works of criticism, including History/Writing and Temporalizing Space: The Triumphant Strategies of Piero della Francesca.
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