... . Reproducibility in print suggests a popular consumption of the text and therefore a necessity to produce further editions, thus The Iliad and The Odyssey live on centuries and centuries later. The title suggests that demand and supply alone can bring a text canonic status. Such a notion would be simplistic because there ... Arnold incites us to uncover, "the best that is known and thought-, which is what the institution seeks to fulfil in the canon. Wuthering Heights is widely held to be a canonic text, since it has had such undeniable resonance with its readers since its publication....

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