Canonization works by foreclosing certain kinds of questions
Evidence
In either case, processes of canon formation meant also that certain kinds of questions could not now be asked. One could not read a modernist or postmodernist narrative from the standpoint of realism, for example, without being guilty of Derrida’s famous ‘metaphysic of presence’. The subordinating or even foreclosing of certain kinds of questions, the foregrounding of others, is the essential canonizing gesture. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 210
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines canon formation not as inclusion of texts but as the power to determine which critical questions count as legitimate.
- XREF: connects to: Canon formation works by foreclosing certain questions while foregrounding others. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 484; Canon formation works by excluding certain questions from being asked
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