Week 1 | Questions of Canon
Mantoan et. al, suggest that the very nature of the "Canon" with a concerted effort to establish a point of permeance in a changing landscape. “Obsessed with this fraught past, we speak of new work as if it were something novel, but the canon is composed of new works grown old. Valuing longevity over innovation, we fail to recognize that one thing that made those works great was their departure from the past (4)”. Michele Foucault (1969) suggests similarly in introduction of "Archelogy of Knowledge" that scholars and thinkers of his time wants to have unified period of time, but fails to consider how these periods starts and stops, and how other moments can easily fracture that idyllic whole. Likewise, Gulliroy (1992) contends with how establishing what is a practice and isn't reflects similarly to how the Christian religion chose was it is and isn't and grounds of orthodoxy and control. With these tests, I'm reminded of the challenge that major religi...