The Western Canon - Couverture souple

Bloom, Prof. Harold

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0333699157 ISBN 13 : 9780333699157

Editeur : Papermac, 1996

Synopsis

This text is a defence of the western literary canon which the author sees being eroded by the tyranny of cultural studies and political correctness in the academic and literary world. It is both a survey of the great authors from Dante to Beckett that make up the canon, with Shakespeare at its centre, as well as a polemical assault on the forces that are trying to diminish it.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book by Harold Bloom on Western literature, in which Bloom defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon. The Western Canon is Bloom's best-known book alongside The Anxiety of Influence (1973), and was a surprise bestseller upon its release in the United States. Bloom argues against what he calls the "School of Resentment", which includes feminist literary criticism, Marxist literary criticism, Lacanians, New Historicism, Deconstructionists, and semioticians. The Western Canon includes four appendices listing works that Bloom at the time considered canonical, stretching from earliest scriptures to Tony Kushner's Angels in America. Bloom would later disown the list, saying that it was written at his editor's insistence and distracted from the book's intention.

Biographie de l'auteur

Harold Bloom

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Papermac
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333699157
• ISBN 13: 9780333699157
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 578
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible