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  • I would argue that the "Urn" 's "hypercanonicity" is at least partly

    Hermeneutics for Sophomores 2003

  • Because of what Jim O'Rourke calls its "hypercanonicity," students (and perhaps we their teachers) find it difficult to read the poem itself, rather than simply rehearsing preconceptions.

    Hermeneutics for Sophomores 2003

  • The hypercanonicity of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" stems in part from its usefulness in various pedagogical settings, from the British Romanticism survey to the Introduction to Poetry class to the course on literary criticism.

    Ode on a Grecian Urn 2003

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  • MaryW commented on the word hypercanonicity

    In contrast, Jonathan Arac, a modem scholar and critic, characterizes the heightened praise given to the novel as hypercanonicity, meaning the book's lofty place in the canon reflects an exaggerated statement about its literary value. He states, "hypercanonization involved teaching students to appreciate Huckleberry Finn in ways that it had never been appreciated before."

    Sharon E. Rush, Emotional Segregation: Huckleberry Finn in the Modern Classroom, 36 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 305, 341 (2003) (citing Jonathan Arac, Huckleberry Finn as Tool and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time at 6 (1997))

    November 23, 2016