| 词条 | The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages |
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| name = The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages | image = File:The Western Canon.png | image_caption = Cover of the first edition | author = Harold Bloom | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | subject = Western canon | publisher = Harcourt Brace | pub_date = 1994 | media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback) | pages = 578 | isbn = 978-1-57322-514-4 | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book by Harold Bloom on Western literature, in which the author 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. SummaryBloom defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon:[1][2] {{div col}}
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.[3] ReceptionNorman Fruman of the New York Times wrote that "The Western Canon is a heroically brave, formidably learned and often unbearably sad response to the present state of the humanities".[4] The novelist A. S. Byatt wrote: Bloom's canon is in many ways mine. It consists of those writers all other writers have to know and by whom they measure themselves. A culture's canon is an evolving consensus of individual canons. Canonical writers changed the medium, the language they were working in. People who merely describe what is happening now don't last. Mine includes writers I don't necessarily like. D.H. Lawrence, though I hate him in a way, Jane Austen, too.[5] See also
References1. ^Harold Bloom, The Western Canon, 1994, p. 2 2. ^{{cite news|first=Ken|last=Tucker|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,304173,00.html|title=Book Review: 'The Western Canon: The Books and the School of the Ages'; Books|work=EW.com|date=21 October 1994|accessdate=2011-05-01}} 3. ^{{cite news|first=James|last=Pearson|title=Harold Bloom [Interview]|url=https://www.vice.com/read/harold-bloom-431-v15n12|publisher=Vice Magazine|accessdate=29 September 2012}} 4. ^{{cite news|first=Norman|last=Fruman|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/01/specials/bloom-canon.html|title=Bloom at Thermopylae| newspaper=The New York Times|date=9 October 1994}} 5. ^Lawrence, Tim; Guttridge, Peter. "Reloading the ancient canon". The Independent (London). 21 November 1994. External links
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