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Western Canon The Books and School of the Ages

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ISBN-10: 0151957479

ISBN-13: 9780151957477

Edition: 1994

Authors: Harold Bloom

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"Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New Historicism." "Insisting instead upon "the autonomy of the aesthetic," Bloom places Shakespeare at the center of the Western Canon. Shakespeare has become the touchstone for all writers who come before and after him, whether playwrights poets or storytellers. In the creation of character, Bloom maintains, Shakespeare has no true precursor and has left no one after…    
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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 8/31/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 578
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Michael Parenti (Ph.D., Yale University) is an internationally known, award-winning author, scholar, and lecturer who addresses a wide variety of political and cultural subjects. Among his recent books are Waiting for Yesterday (2013), The Face of Imperialism (2011), God and His Demons (2010), and Democracy for the Few, 9th edition (2010).Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930 in New York City. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell in 1951 and his Doctorate from Yale in 1955. After graduating from Yale, Bloom remained there as a teacher, and was made Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1983. Bloom's theories have changed the way that critics think of literary tradition and has also…    

Preface and Prelude
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
Montaigne and Moliere: The Canonical Elusiveness of the Truth
Milton's Satan and Shakespeare
Dr. Samuel Johnson, the Canonical Critic
Goethe's Faust, Part Two: The Countercanonical Poem
The Democratic Age
Canonical Memory in Early Wordsworth and Jane Austen's Persuasion
Walt Whitman as Center of the American Canon
Emily Dickinson: Blanks, Transports, the Dark
The Canonical Novel: Dickens's Bleak House, George Eliot's Middlemarch
Tolstoy and Heroism
Ibsen: Trolls and Peer Gynt
The Chaotic Age
Freud: A Shakespearean Reading
Proust: The True Persuasion of Sexual Jealousy
Joyce's Agon with Shakespeare
Woolf's Orlando: Feminism as the Love of Reading
Kafka: Canonical Patience and "Indestructibility"
Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa: Hispanic-Portuguese Whitman
Beckett...Joyce...Proust...Shakespeare
Cataloging the Canon
Elegiac Conclusion
Appendixes
The Theocratic Age
The Aristocratic Age
The Democratic Age
The Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy
Index