TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bloom,Harold
TI  - The Western canon: the books and school of the ages 
SN  - 1573225142
AV  - PN81 .B545 1995
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - Riverhead Books
KW  - Canon (Literature)
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Originally published: 1st edition New York : Harcourt Brace, c1994; Includes index; Preface and prelude; -- I; On the Canon --; Elegy for the Canon --; II The; Aristocratic age --; Shakespeare, center of the Canon --; The; Strangeness of Dante: Ulysses and Beatrice --; Chaucer: the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and Shakespearean character --; Cervantes: 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 --; III The; Democratic Age --; Canonical memory in the early Wordsworth and Jane Austen's Persuasion --; Walt Whitman as center of the American canon --; Emily Dickinson: blanks, transports and the dark --; The; Canonical novel: Dicken's Bleak House, George Eliot's Middlemarch --; Tolstoy and heroism --; Ibsen: troll and Peer Gynt --; IV The; Chaotic Age --; Freud: a Shakespearean reading --; Proust: the true persuasion of sexual jealousy --; Joyce 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 --; V; Cataloging the Canon --; Elegiac conclusion --; Appendixes --; The; Theocratic Age --; The; Aristotic Age --; The; Democratic Age --; The; Chaotic Age: a conical prophecy --; Index
N2  - Includes criticism and interpretation of William Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes, Montaigne, Moliere, John Milton, Samuel Johnson, Goethe, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen and Persuasion, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens and Bleak House, George Eliot and Middlemarch, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Freud, Proust, James Joyce and Ulysses, Virginia Woolf and Orlando, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, and Fernando Pessoa
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