It will continue to change as our culture changes.
It will continue to change as our culture changes.
"A literary canon is always changing. New excellent works of literature are being added all the time" is a statement that is not true about a literary canon.
Everyone agrees on which works should be included in it
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One criticism of the existing Western literary canon is that it mostly excludes women and minorities.
In literary terms, a canon is a highly respected body of work.
Literature in the literary canon must be able to be passed down by generations; they must possess excellent literary techniques, appeal to a variety of people, and provoke thought.
self-evident
values
Western literary societies have a large amount of consensus on which works should be included in the literary canon. However sometimes up to 10% of these may be disagreed upon. This number changes as the make up of literary societies and academia changes from year to year.
A literary canon reflects the values of those who compiled it. There may have been other books contemporary with the canonical ones which were influential but which the compilers deemed not virtuous enough for inclusion in the canon.
A canon of literature is a collection of literary works that are deemed the most important of their time period.
D. Should artistic merit be the sole criterion for inclusion in the canon? Or, simply: What are the criteria for inclusion in the literary canon?