THE HOSPITABLE CANON ESSAYS ON LITERARY PLAY, SCHOLARLY CHOICE, AND POPULAR PRESSURES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Canons and Differences -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- Reading 'Nasty' Great Books -- Works Cited -- Marginality:Stickball,Narcissus, and the Demands of Faith -- Creative Intuition, Great Books, and Freedom of Intellect -- Notes -- Perplexing Lessons: Is There a Core Tradition in the Humanities? -- Jorge Luis Borgesand the Canon of English Literature -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- The Teaching Anthology and the Canon of American Literature: Some Notes on Theory in Practice -- Notes -- Multiple Pointsof View: A Study of French Comparative Literature Syllabi -- Laocoön IV: An Essay Upon the Pragmatics of Art and the Limits of Criticism -- 1. The Re-appearance -- 2. A Selective History of a Very Bad Metaphor -- 3. Fretted and Unfretted Statements on the Pragmatics of Art -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Arnold's Legacy: Religious Rhetoric of Critics on the Literary Canon -- Notes -- Works Cited -- "Canon," Theme, and Code -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- Literary Canons and Social Value Options -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- IX -- X -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.