![]() ![]() 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. Blooms list of the 26 most important writers includes 4 women, and his larger Canon has sections devoted to writers from Latin America, The Middle East, The West Indies, Africa, and India, plus his list of American authors includes numerous women and people of color. 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. "Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. preserved out of what has been written, and forget the canon as a list of books for required study, will be seen as identical with the literary Art of. ![]()
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