Robert J. Aston received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught secondary English for over ten years and in both California and New York; he has also taught at Columbia University’s Teachers College. His research, influenced heavily by the ideas of Michel Foucault, focuses on canon theory, literary knowledge, and assemblage theory.

• IntroductionLocating the CanonChapter OneSuspending the GivenChapter TwoThe Canon, Its Gatekeepers, and the Teaching of LiteratureChapter ThreePower Relations, the Canon, and ResistanceChapter FourAssemblages: Lines of Stability and Change in the CanonChapter FiveIncompleteness and the Canon in the Teaching of Literature

Robert J. Aston received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught secondary English for over ten years and in both California and New York; he has also taught at Columbia University’s Teachers College. His research, influenced heavily by the ideas of Michel Foucault, focuses on canon theory, literary knowledge, and assemblage theory.

• IntroductionLocating the CanonChapter OneSuspending the GivenChapter TwoThe Canon, Its Gatekeepers, and the Teaching of LiteratureChapter ThreePower Relations, the Canon, and ResistanceChapter FourAssemblages: Lines of Stability and Change in the CanonChapter FiveIncompleteness and the Canon in the Teaching of Literature

Robert J. Aston received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught secondary English for over ten years and in both California and New York; he has also taught at Columbia University’s Teachers College. His research, influenced heavily by the ideas of Michel Foucault, focuses on canon theory, literary knowledge, and assemblage theory.

• IntroductionLocating the CanonChapter OneSuspending the GivenChapter TwoThe Canon, Its Gatekeepers, and the Teaching of LiteratureChapter ThreePower Relations, the Canon, and ResistanceChapter FourAssemblages: Lines of Stability and Change in the CanonChapter FiveIncompleteness and the Canon in the Teaching of Literature