The Western canon : the books and school of the ages / Harold Bloom
- Bib ID:
- 391275
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bloom, Harold
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Harcourt Brace, c1994
- viii, 578 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0151957479
- 0333648137 (London)
- Full contents:
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- 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 Moliere: 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 Shakespearean 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 "Indestructibility" 21. Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa: Hispanic-Portuguese Whitman. 22. Beckett...Joyce...Proust...Shakespeare
- V. Cataloging the Canon. 23. Elegiac Conclusion. A. The Theocratic Age. B. The Aristocratic Age. C. The Democratic Age. D. The Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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