ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Malhar, Historical Period Drama, Black Canadians
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), theology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, high art humanism as universal truth. It grows out of the christian biblical canon sacred books. Universal value affirmed by an official, authoritative community. Deemed to be the production of a higher power with high aesthetic and/or philosophical and/or psychological value. Deemed beneficial to and elevating of the soul, mind, heart, taste and morals, with the ability to improve culture, society and the world: paradoxes of literary universality. High art as universal yet the universal as exclusive, excluding and elitist (ayanna. Wouldn"t this mean it isn"t universal after all: global functions of the english canon. The institutionalisation and dissemination of english literature was justified on the basis of its perceived universal human truth and high, superior moralising and civilising functions. A universality exported and engaged in nationalist empire building, colonising others overseas, and civilising the lower orders at home (see frey article. ) Historian thomas macauley, 1873: there are triumphs which are followed by no reverse.
