Forging the Key of Remembrance: Books, Cultures and Memory

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作者：

Moseley, C. W. R. D. ^{[1
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机构：

[1] Hughes Hall, Cambridge, England

来源：

LITERATURE AND THE LONG MODERNITY | 2014年 / 176卷

关键词：

adaptation; authority; bardolatry; Britain; canon; Chaucer; Dante; Garrick; history; identity key; Geoffrey; Shakespeare; Stratford; mentalite; Polydore; memory; Monmouth; nation; remembrance; Troy; truth; Vergil;

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中图分类号：

I0 [文学理论];

学科分类号：

0501 ; 050101 ;

摘要：

This essay, recognizing the importance of how we read books, and which books we read, to our construction of our past, looks at three instances that have been seminal in English culture: Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, Geoffrey Chaucer, and William Shakespeare. It argues that one important job of the critic and scholar is to recover as far as is now possible the mentalite in which these books were written in order to criticize and evaluate our own, and that a canon agreed over time is both inevitable and essential.

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