Theory and Practice of Literary Historiography in Brazil, 1950s: A Look into the Corporate Logic of a Modernist Institution

  • Saulo Gouveia Michigan State University
Keywords: Cultural Studies, Brazil, History, Modernity

Abstract

Educational institutions and the state cultural apparatus play a decisive role in canon formation. As an academic subfield usually linked to institutions of higher education and sometimes to government agencies, literary historiography attempts to give the national canon a fixed form, a chronological and thematic structure that aims to regulate the study of literature in the educational field.

Published
2009-12-11
Section
Articles