The American canon, What is the difference between the open canon and the closed canon?

by admin on 2011/12/21

Question by The man: The American canon, What is the difference between the open canon and the closed canon?
What i know is that the open canon includes black books and authors but the closed canon does not... so am i right? is that it?

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Answer by Beach Saint
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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_n4_v27/ai_15342552

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tonydaloisio December 21, 2011 at 3:52 pm

I guess so. Sounds more like the open canon includes a clatch of adjunct professors trying to make a little name for themselves by revising things (yet again), and the closed canon is whatever they didn’t like from the past 50 years. Just more opaque jargon from academe.

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