Die saamstel van bloemlesings as kanoniserende handeling: deel 1: deel 2

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Title:	Die saamstel van bloemlesings as kanoniserende handeling: deel 1: deel 2
Author:	Van Coller, H.P.
Year:	2002
Periodical:	Tydskrif vir geesteswetenskappe
Volume:	42
Issue:	1
Pages:	66-78
Language:	Afrikaans
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	Afrikaans language literature anthologies poetry
Abstract:	This two-part study emphasizes the compilation of anthologies as an act of canonization, i.e. the role of the literary anthology in the canonization process. As anthologies can be seen as both cultural agents and as veiled historiographies of literature, the compilation of an anthology is never a neutral act. Using system theory, as theoretical paradigm and as operational hypothesis, especially the 'Field theory' of Pierre Bourdieu, the compilation of anthologies can be seen as acts to establish literary reputations. These acts function as provocation which leads to a debate in the 'Literary Field' (Bourdieu) that always centres on conceptions of literature. The first part of the study concludes with a typology of anthologies that can be utilized as a hermeneutical tool and evaluative procedure. In the second part, these hypotheses are put to the test by scrutinizing several Afrikaans poetry anthologies against the backdrop of the Afrikaans literary field. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English, text in Afrikaans. [Journal abstract]