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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.”Cited by: Aug 31,  · 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 ofthe western literary traditionand essential writers of the ages/5.

Oct 17,  · 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.4/5(81).

Sep 28,  ·   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/5. Books shelved as western-canon: The Odyssey by Homer, The Iliad by Homer, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The Great Gatsby by F.

Scott Fitzg. In the book's appendices, Bloom also details The Western Canon more fully, listing writers and their canonical works in four chronological periods: the Theocratic Age (from the ancient Near East to the Middle Ages), the Aristocratic Age (from Dante to Goethe), the Democratic Age (the nineteenth century) and the Chaotic Age (the twentieth century).

In “The Western Canon”, as the title of the book suggests, he wrote that he focused on the texts from the western world and that he did not include texts from regions outside it partly because he couldn’t read in their original language and that he felt he’s not versed enough to comment upon them.

"I have included some Sanskrit works, scriptures and fundamental literary texts, because of their influence on the Western canon. The immense wealth of ancient Chinese literature is mostly a sphere apart from Western literary tradition and is rarely conveyed adequately in.

The Western Canon by Harold Bloom Review By Dan Geddes 11 February See also reviews of Bloom’s The Book of J, The Anxiety of Influence, and Omens of Millenium. Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon reads like a work a desperation; a work from a man convinced that imaginative literature as he knows it is dying, only to be replaced by literature of alienation.

Oct 21,  · Just look: His new book, The Western Canon: The Books and the School of the Ages (Harcourt Brace, $) is a lengthy, frequently enlightening, sometimes baffling overview of. About The Western Canon.

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.”. Dec 22,  · Literary critic Harold Blooms 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%().

Mar 23,  · Each week in Bookends, two writers take on questions about the world of books. This week, Pankaj Mishra and Daniel Mendelsohn discuss how a book like Harold Bloom’s “Western Canon. Aug 07,  · The Western Canon is a discussion and critique outlining twenty-six writers critical to Western literature.

My goal is to spend the next few years reading through the critically recommended works vastly expanding my knowledge of literature and hopefully giving me a solid foundation that I lack due to skipping school.

Jun 17,  · THE WESTERN CANON: The Books and School of the Ages User Review - Kirkus One of our biggest critical gun fires a characteristically Olympian 4/5(8). 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 ofthe western literary traditionand essential writers of the ages.

The Western Canon was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.". The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages Harold Bloom. 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.

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.”4/5(6). THE WESTERN CANON: The Books and School of the Ages User Review - Kirkus. One of our biggest critical gun fires a characteristically Olympian broadside into the canon debate, no quarter spared for the politically correct/5(11).

Harold Bloom's book The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is centered around the concept of a literary canon, which Bloom describes as "what has been preserved out of what has been written." The term canon is religious in origin, initially referring to wisdom literature chosen for inclusion into Scripture by the Christian ducklakebooks.com by:.

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.Main The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages.

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages Harold Bloom. 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.Jun 06,  · Over the last year or so, I’ve read through the canon of what’s considered to be the cream of the crop for Western literature.

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