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More than a required reading list, The Western Canon is a major work of vision by the foremost literary critic in America. In defining the essential masterworks of world literature--the Western Canon--Bloom enlightens and inspires all readers to return to the special joys of reading that our... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Walt Whitman: Add a description of this character.
- Shakespeare
- Joyce
- Dr. Johnson
- Milton
- Borges
- Beckett
- Kafka
- Beatrice
- Don Quixote
- Lear
- Cervantes
- Hadji Murad
- Dickinson
- Falstaff
- Freud
- Chaucer
- Tolstoy
- Alceste
- Proust
- Hamm
- Macbeth
- Edmund
- Neruda
- Wordsworth
- Ibsen
- Woolf
- Jane Austen
- Blake
- George Eliot
- Sancho
- Montaigne
- Emerson
- Swann
- Marcel
- Virgil
- Stephen
- Hazlitt
- Mephistopheles
- Margaret
- Anne Elliot
- Dickens
- Stevens
- Godot
Setting & Locations edit
- Goethean
- Orlando
- Canon
- Unamuno
- Ulysses
- Faust
- Cordelia
- America
- Petrarch
- Racine
- Boccaccio
- Stratford
- France
- Bleak House
- Germany
- Stendhal
- London
- Poldy
- Calderon
- Old Cumberland Beggar
- Spain
- Kaflca
- England
- United States
- Rabelais
- Heaven
- Paris
- Jerusalem
- Caeiro
- Europe
- Antony
- Othello
- Canterbury
- Italy
- Balzac
- Mansfield Park
- Inferno
- Ireland
- Dublin
- Gloucester
- Romantic
- Albany
- Judaism
- Rome
- Peer Gynt
- Middlemarch
- Paradise Lost
First Sentence edit
ORIGINALLY THE Canon meant the choice of books in our teaching institutions.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Harold Bloom (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Harcourt
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0151957479
Page Count: 578
Publisher: Harcourt
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0151957479
Page Count: 578
Awards edit
- National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 1994: Criticism)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 809
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