Like the colonial power (...) the canonical work acts as a center -- the center of the perceptual field, the center of values, the center of interest, the center, in short, of a web of meaningful interrelations. The noncanonical works act as colonies or as countries that are unknown and out of sight and mind.

LANDOW, George P.. The Literary Canon. Disponível em: https://victorianweb.org/gender/canon/litcan.html. Acesso em: 01 out. 2022.