Word: canonically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would lay the best-publicized claim to the word. This highly self-conscious movement was born largely through the midwifery of Alain Locke, the first black Rhodes scholar. Writers such as Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Jessie Fauset and Zora Neale Hurston -- the fundaments of the black literary canon today -- came of age at this time, leading the New York Herald Tribune to announce in 1925 that America was "on the edge, if not already in the midst, of what might not improperly be called a Negro renaissance...
...subvert the great works for extraliterary purposes, i.e., anything smacking of social engineering, are barbarians; and further still, that these barbarians are not at the gates but are largely in charge of American education and the nation's debased institutions of public discourse. His The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Harcourt Brace; 578 pages; $29.95) is thus, in part, a dire prophecy of the end of civilization as we know it: "I realize that the Balkanization of literary studies is irreversible...
...MSTIES, as the show's 50,000 registered fans are called, were in pig paradise. They squealed like Beatlemaniacs when a cast member came onstage, and seemed as knowledgeable as the show's creators about every aspect of the canon. But why devote so much energy to a TV show? One woman replied, "Let's just say we're good solid American citizens with a lot of time on our hands...
...Professor Garber's class offered more of an MTV view, that it seemed too fast for any real introspection into the plays," says Ryan T. McGee '98, who shopped both and opted for Greenblatt, "whereas Professor Greenblatt's class offered an in-depth and interesting view of the Shakespearean canon...
...some professors, thought they praise theacademic freedom of today's students, still lamentthe dissolution of the canon...