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978-1-57322-514-4. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book about Western literature by the American literary critic Harold Bloom, in which the author defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon.
- Harold Bloom
- 1994
The Western Canon is tightly focused on only 26 authors, but in a series of four appendices, Bloom lists the hundreds of other names he considers canonical. For all of Bloom’s ornery defensiveness, his list is surprisingly inclusive, as well as—for Fruman—surprisingly idiosyncratic.
This web page presents the literary canon as defined by Harold Bloom, a critic and scholar of Western literature. It covers the works of various authors and genres from the ancient Near East to the 20th century, organized by historical periods and regions.
17 de jun. de 2014 · The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. Harold Bloom. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jun 17, 2014 - Literary Criticism - 562 pages. The literary critic defends the importance of...
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- Harold Bloom
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014
13 de ago. de 2009 · The Western canon : the books and school of the ages. On the canon: an elegy for the canon -- The aristocratic age: Shakespeare, center of the canon. The strangeness of Dante : Ulysses and Beatrice. Chaucer : the wife of Bath, the pardoner, and Shakespearean character. Cervantes : the play of the world.
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. Harold Bloom. Penguin Publishing Group, Sep 1, 1995 - Literary Criticism - 560 pages. NATIONAL BESTSELLERNOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL...
31 de ago. de 1994 · Literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list—it is a vision. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the great works of the western literary tradition ...