Anticanonical

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Opposing or challenging a canon.

    "When critical reading is established as a global language of value, such maneuvers become necessary to rescue texts for any canon, even the anticanonical canon."

  2. 2
    Of or relating to the inverse bundle corresponding to a canonical bundle. not-comparable

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"When critical reading is established as a global language of value, such maneuvers become necessary to rescue texts for any canon, even the anticanonical canon."

Etymology

From anti- + canonical.

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