Neoclassicism | Critical Opinions on the Definition of Neoclassicism
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The boundaries defining the neoclassical genre have been tested, questioned, and found wanting by many literary critics. Equally troublesome to many of these critics is the notion that a literary canon can be categorized strictly on the basis of what is a largely accepted, though narrowly focused. In the late 1960s, James William Johnson considered this idea in his work “What Was Neoclassicism.” He was chiefly concerned with what he identified as a vast range of literature widely ignored in favor of a “limited, prejudged selection of Restoration and 18th Century literature.”...
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