Sep 14, 2022 · Hatched on college campuses, "critical pedagogies" have begun to leave the nest. Like an overlong proxy war, the “canon” skirmishes of the 1980s and ’90s no longer feature in …

A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant. Gunpowder ("black powder") was the primary propellant …

Sep 16, 2007 · “The Closing of the American Mind” hit the scene at a time when universities were embroiled in the so-called canon wars, in which traditionalists in favor of centering the …

For a brief spell in the 80’s and 90’s, higher education was consumed by the canon wars. For those too young to remember, the canon wars were some earnest and intense battles among …

Taking a longer view of the canon wars than is normally assumed, I mean to outline an instructive history of struggle, revision, and self-contradiction.

Cannon operation is described by the 1771 Encyclopædia Britannica. Each cannon would be manned by two gunners, six soldiers, and four officers of the artillery. The right gunner was to …

Apr 26, 2018 · For a period in the 1980s and 1990s (imaginably before most of the Reedies Against Racism were born), the Canon Wars dominated the academy. In its most simplistic …

Oct 18, 2022 · Before the hard work of building the global canon can begin, the partisans of a humanistic education must agree about something much simpler: that their main task is no …

Feb 21, 2023 · By English Scripture, here, is meant our canon–an essentially controversial conception, in multiple respects. The cultural and institutional space it occupies is roughly that …

Jun 16, 2020 · Within the context of the early American literary canon, the effort to diversify perspectives has become a high priority. Indeed, it wasn’t long ago that the Canon Wars …