The Western Canon
The Books and School of the Ages
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Publisher:
New York : - Harcourt Brace
Pages:
578
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
0151957479
Language:
English
Contents:
An elegy for the Canon
Shakespeare, center of the Canon
The strangeness of Dante: Ulysses and Beatrice
Chaucer: the wife of Bath, the pardoner, and Shakespearean character
Cervants: the play of the world
Montaigne and Moliere: the canonical elusiveness of the truth
Milton's Satan and Shakespeare
Dr. Samuel Johnson, the canonical critic
Goethe's Faust, part two: the countercanonical poem
Canonical memory in early Wordsworth and Jane Austen's Persuasion
Walt Whitman as center of the American Canon
Emily Dickinson: blanks, transports, the dark
The canonical novel: Dickens's Bleak house, George Eliot's Middlemarch
Tolstoy and heroism
Ibsen: trolls and Peer Gynt
Freud: a Shakespearean reading
Proust: the true persuasion of sexual jealousy
Joyce's Agon with Shakespeare
Woolf's Orlando: feminism as the love of reading
Kafka: canonical patience and "indestructibility"
Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa: Hispanic-Portuguese Whitman
Beckett ... Joyce ... Proust ... Shakespeare
Elegiac conclusion.
Shakespeare, center of the Canon
The strangeness of Dante: Ulysses and Beatrice
Chaucer: the wife of Bath, the pardoner, and Shakespearean character
Cervants: the play of the world
Montaigne and Moliere: the canonical elusiveness of the truth
Milton's Satan and Shakespeare
Dr. Samuel Johnson, the canonical critic
Goethe's Faust, part two: the countercanonical poem
Canonical memory in early Wordsworth and Jane Austen's Persuasion
Walt Whitman as center of the American Canon
Emily Dickinson: blanks, transports, the dark
The canonical novel: Dickens's Bleak house, George Eliot's Middlemarch
Tolstoy and heroism
Ibsen: trolls and Peer Gynt
Freud: a Shakespearean reading
Proust: the true persuasion of sexual jealousy
Joyce's Agon with Shakespeare
Woolf's Orlando: feminism as the love of reading
Kafka: canonical patience and "indestructibility"
Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa: Hispanic-Portuguese Whitman
Beckett ... Joyce ... Proust ... Shakespeare
Elegiac conclusion.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [531]-567).
Statement of responsibility:
Harold Bloom
Physical description:
viii, 578 p. ; 25 cm.
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