Debating the canon: a reader from Addison to Nafisi

The canon brawl / Lee Morrissey

Pleasures of the imagination / Joseph Addison

Of the standard of taste / David Hume

Preface to the plays of William Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson

We never quarrel qbout religion / Red Jacket, Iroquois

The function of criticism at the present time / Matthew Arnold Hebraism and Hellenism / Matthew Arnold

Tradition and the Individual Talent / T.S. Eliot

Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture / F. R. Leavis

Reading and the growth of the mind / Mortimer Adler

Odysseus' scar / Erich Auerbach

Persecution and the art of writing / Leo Strauss

National culture / Frantz Fanon

Commitment / Theodor Adorno

Colonialist criticism / Chinua Achebe

The female tradition / Elaine Showalter

A Map for Rereading: Or, Gender and the Interpretation of Literary Texts / Annette Kolodny

The Field of Cultural Production / Pierre Bourdieu

To reclaim a legacy: Text of report on humanities in education / William Bennett Sexua

l Politics and critical judgment / Elizabeth Meese

'But is it any good?': The institutionalization of literary value, / Jane Tomkins

Volume I: Introduction / Martin Bernal

The student and the University / Allan Bloom

Rise of the fragmented curriculum / E.D. Hirsch

Contingencies of value / Barbara Hernstein Smith

From history and Value / Frank Kermode

Native American Literature and the Canon / Arnold Krupat

Canons and Differences / Charles Altieri

Melodramas of beset manhood: How theories of American fiction exclude women authors / Nina Baym

From death of literature / Alvin Kernan

Speaking against the humanities / Roger Kimball

The shaping of the American literary canon / Paul Lauter

Canon to the right of me / Katha Pollitt

Master's Pieces / Henry Louis Gates

Turning Conflict into Community / Gerald Graff

Canonical and Noncanonical: The Current Debate / John Guillory connecting empire to secular interpretation / Edward Said

Rites of interpretation / Vassilis Lambropoulos

Higher education and American liberalism / Michael Berube An elegy for the canon / Harold Bloom To whom to give to / Jacques Derrida

From the great books / David Denby

Ancient myths of cultural dependancy / Mary Lefkowitz

The 'new' liberal education / Martha C. Nussbaum

From symptoms of culture / Marjorie Garber

On the inspirational value of great works of literature / Richard Rorty

A flock of cultures: A trivial proposal / Robert Scholes

Gatsby / Azar Nafisi.