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    Harold Bloom's 1994 book "The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages" explores the Western literary canon by focusing on the works of 26 central authors. Bloom argues against ideology in literary criticism and laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards. He places Shakespeare at the center of the canon, maintaining that Shakespeare has no true precursor in character creation and has influenced all subsequent writers whether playwrights, poets, or storytellers. The book concludes with Bloom's list of essential writers and works that represent his vision of the Western canon.

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    Harold Bloom's 1994 book "The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages" explores the Western literary canon by focusing on the works of 26 central authors. Bloom argues against ideology in literary criticism and laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards. He places Shakespeare at the center of the canon, maintaining that Shakespeare has no true precursor in character creation and has influenced all subsequent writers whether playwrights, poets, or storytellers. The book concludes with Bloom's list of essential writers and works that represent his vision of the Western canon.

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    Author : Harold Bloom

    Pages : 578 pages

    Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1994-08-31

    Language : English

    ISBN-10 : 0151957479

    ISBN-13 : 9780151957477

    Book Synopsis
    Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. 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. Shakespeare has become the touchstone for all writers who come before and after him, whether
    playwrights poets or storytellers. In the creation of character, Bloom maintains, Shakespeare has no true precursor and has left no one after him
    untouched. 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.

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