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The Literary Canon in the Age of New Media

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Backe, Hans-Joachim·2015·Poetics Today
DOI 10.1215/03335372-2879757
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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.

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  • The heterogeneity of practices, actors, and driving forces related to canon and value assignment can be subsumed into a triad-canonization, decanonization/countercanonization, and recanonization-which represents a constant of cultural dynamic.

    “In this paper, I make an argument for subsuming the heterogeneity of practices, actors, and driving forces related to canon and value assignment into three kinds of processes that follow the form of a triad-canonization, decanonization/countercanonization, and recanonization-which actually represents a constant of the cultural dynamic [13].”

    From Canon, Value, and Cultural Heritage: New Processes of Assigning Value in the Postdigital Realm (2018) · cites this paper as [13]

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Authors
Backe, H.-J.
Affiliations
IT University of Copenhagen (DK)
Corresponding author
Backe, Hans-Joachim
ORCID
Backe, Hans-Joachim
Venue
Poetics Today
Publisher
Duke University Press
Published
2015-06-01
Volume
36
Issue
1-2
Pages
1-31
ISSN
  • 0333-5372 (ISSN-L)
  • 1527-5507
DOI
10.1215/03335372-2879757
OpenAlex
W2259047790
Cited by
14
References
75
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2
FWCI
10.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
other-oa
Locations
  • Poetics Today (publishedVersion)
  • IT University Of Copenhagen (IT University of Copenhagen) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › German Literature and Culture Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts
Keywords
literary canon, canon formation, canon debate, new media, digital literature, canonization

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