3 The Uses of the Dead

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. Versions of Canonic Harmony
6. Early Gestures 23
7. Consequences of Presentism
8. Albion’s Parnassus and the Professional Author 87
9. The Uses of the Dead 124
10. Defining a Cultural Field
11. Value into Knowledge 147
12. The Fall of Apollo 173
13. Consumption and Canonic Hierarchy
14. Reading the Canon 209
15. A Basis for Criticism 247
16. Epilogue 293
17. Notes 303
18. Index 283