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ISBN
1573225142
Book Title
Western Canon : the Books and School of the Ages
Item Length
9in
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year
1995
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.2in
Author
Harold Bloom
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Topic
Reference, General, Semiotics & Theory, Essays
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Number of Pages
560 Pages

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD "Heroically brave, formidably learned... The Western Canon is a passionate demonstration of why some writers have triumphantly escaped the oblivion in which time buries almost all human effort. It inspires hope... that what humanity has long cherished, posterity will also." - The New York Times Book Review 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 and essential writers of the ages: the "Western Canon." Harold Bloom's book, much-discussed and praised in publications as diverse as The Economist and Entertainment Weekly , offers a dazzling display of erudition mixed with passion. For years to come it will serve as an inspiration to return to the joys of reading our literary tradition offers us.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1573225142
ISBN-13
9781573225144
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Western Canon : the Books and School of the Ages
Author
Harold Bloom
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Reference, General, Semiotics & Theory, Essays
Publication Year
1995
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
560 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pn81.B545 1995
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Twelfth Grade
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Reviews
"Heroically brave, formidably learned... The Western Canon is a passionate demonstration of why some writers have triumphantly escaped the oblivion in which time buries almost all human effort. It inspires hope... that what humanity has long cherished, posterity will also." - The New York Times Book Review "This book is terribly important -- if you believe that literature itself is important, quite noble -- if you believe that 'nobility' is still a viable concept in intellectual life." -- The Boston Globe "Harold Bloom's large-minded and large-hearted book about the great books has many of the virtues that it sees and shows in the works he so fiercely admires." -Christopher Ricks, The Washington Times "The list... is what will get all the attention, but it is the text preceding that provides the true pleasure." - Entertainment Weekly "[Harold Bloom] has, in a quietly joyous fashion, the chutzpah to put his stamp on the whole of literature from Genesis to Ashbery, rivaling the scope of hero-critics like Sainsbury or Curtius or Auerbach though more giddily adventurous than they were... In one sense the hero of this book, as of all his books, is Bloom himself, modestly bold, genially polemical, dogmatically opposed to dogma, carrying to much in his head and always ready to say what he thinks about it all." -Frank Kermode, The London Review of Books
Table of Content
Preface and Prelude I. On the Canon 1. An Elegy for the Canon II. The Aristocratic Age 2. Shakespeare, Center of the Canon 3. The Strangeness of Dante: Ulysses and Beatrice 4. Chaucer: The Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and Shakespearean Character 5. Cervantes: The Play of the World 6. Montaigne and Molière: The Canonical Elusiveness of the Truth 7. Milton's Satan and Shakespeare 8. Dr. Samuel Johnson, the Canonical Critic 9. Goethe's Faust, Part Two : The Countercanonical Poem III. The Democratic Age 10. Canonical Memory in Early Wordsworth and Jane Austen's Persuasion 11. Walt Whitman as Center of the American Canon 12. Emily Dickinson: Blanks, Transports, the Dark 13. The Canonical Novel: Dickens's Bleak House , George Eliot's Middlemarch 14. Tolstoy and Heroism 15. Ibsen: Trolls and Peer Gynt IV. The Chaotic Age 16. Freud: A Shakespearian Reading 17. Proust: The True Persuasion of Sexual Jealousy 18. Joyce's Agon with Shakespeare 19. Woolf's Orlando : Feminism as the Love of Reading 20. Kafka: Canonical Patience and "Indestructability" 21. Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa: Hispanic-Portuguese Whitman 22. Beckett...Joyce...Proust...Shakespeare V. Cataloging the Canon 23. Elegiac Conclusion Appendixes: A. The Theocratic Age B. The Aristocratic Age C. The Democratic Age D. The Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy Index
Copyright Date
1994
Lccn
95-001680
Dewey Decimal
809
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20

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  • by john103141
    Mar 23, 2022

    Allusion Hell

    It's my guess that Bloom wrote THE WESTERN CANON to impress other intellectual snobs with his ability to allude to esoteric writings of even more intellectual snobs. It couldn't be worse, or less relevant. I think it may have been written at a time when such drivel was the expected fare at a faculty "Meet and Greet" wine and cheese party for the latest newcomer to faculty hell. May he spend eternity stuck in an elevator to nowhere with Ezra Pound. It would be a suitable hell for both of them.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: worldofbooksinc

  • by mathbio10
    Oct 20, 2020

    This Book will open the Door to the Finest Literature of the World

    I am definitely highly pleased with the reading of this book--Absolutely delightful and didactic reading. Prof. Harold Bloom is exceptionally highly skilled writer. Out of his extensive experience with literature he has given us the best of the best about how to go in choosing literature that has stood the test of time and of highly critical scholars.

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