Milton, Samuel Johnson, Goethe, Ibsen, Joyce, and Beckett were all indebted to him Tolstoy and Freud rebelled against him and Dante, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens, Whitman, Dickinson, Proust, the modern Hispanic and Portuguese writers Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa are exquisite examples of how canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition." "Bloom concludes this provocative, trenchant work with a complete list of essential writers and books - his vision of the Canon."-Jacket. In the creation of character, Bloom maintains, Shakespeare has no true precursor and has left no one after him untouched. Shakespeare has become the touchstone for all writers who come before and after him, whether playwrights poets or storytellers. 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. 11, 1994 One of our biggest critical gun fires a characteristically Olympian broadside into the canon debate, no quarter spared for the politically correct. The Divine Harold Bloom (as he uses the term for Oscar Wilde) here defends the Western Canon, and while so doing became the recipient of much undeserved criticism, from the likes of so-called New Historicists, gender theorists, Marxist interpreters, and devotees of the School of Resentment. "Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. THE WESTERN CANON THE BOOKS AND SCHOOL OF THE AGES by Harold Bloom RELEASE DATE: Oct.
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