![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A culture's canon is an evolving consensus of individual canons. It consists of those writers all other writers have to know and by whom they measure themselves. Norman Fruman of The New York Times wrote that " The Western Canon is a heroically brave, formidably learned and often unbearably sad response to the present state of the humanities." īloom's canon is in many ways mine. īloom defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon: Bloom later disowned the list, saying that it was written at his editor's insistence and distracted from the book's intention. The Western Canon includes four appendices listing works that Bloom at the time considered canonical, stretching from the earliest scriptures to Tony Kushner's Angels in America. ![]() 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.īloom argues against what he calls the "school of resentment", which includes feminist literary criticism, Marxist literary criticism, Lacanians, New Historicism, Deconstructionists, and semioticians. ![]()
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