The Western Canon
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is 'n 1994-boek oor Westerse letterkunde deur die Amerikaanse literêre kritikus Harold Bloom, waarin die skrywer die konsep van die Westerse kanon verdedig deur 26 skrywers te bespreek wat hy as sentraal tot die kanon beskou.
Opsomming
wysigBloom argumenteer teen wat hy die "skool van wrok" noem, wat feministiese literêre kritiek, Marxistiese literêre kritiek, Lacanians, New Historicism, Deconstructionists en semiotici insluit. The Western Canon sluit vier bylaes in wat werke bevat wat Bloom destyds as kanoniek beskou het, wat strek van die vroegste geskrifte tot Tony Kushner se Angels in America. Bloom het later die lys verwerp en gesê dat dit op sy redakteur se aandrang geskryf is en die aandag van die boek se bedoeling afgelei is.[1]
Bloom verdedig die konsep van die Westerse kanon deur 26 skrywers te bespreek wat hy as sentraal tot die kanon beskou:[2][3]
- William Shakespeare
- Dante Alighieri
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Michel de Montaigne
- Molière
- John Milton
- Samuel Johnson
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- William Wordsworth
- Jane Austen
- Walt Whitman
- Emily Dickinson
- Charles Dickens
- George Eliot
- Leo Tolstoi
- Henrik Ibsen
- Sigmund Freud
- Marcel Proust
- James Joyce
- Virginia Woolf
- Franz Kafka
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Pablo Neruda
- Fernando Pessoa
- Samuel Beckett
Verwysings
wysig- ↑ Pearson, James (2 Desember 2008). "Harold Bloom [Interview]". Vice Magazine. Geargiveer vanaf die oorspronklike op 27 November 2020. Besoek op 1 September 2024.
The list was not my idea. It was the idea of the publisher, the editor, and my agents. I fought it. I finally gave up. I hated it. I did it off the top of my head. I left out a lot of things that should be there and I probably put in a couple of things that I now would like to kick out. ...people reviewed and attacked the list and didn't read the book...I wish I had nothing to do with it.
- ↑ Harold Bloom, The Western Canon, 1994, p. 2.
- ↑ Tucker, Ken (21 Oktober 1994). "Book Review: 'The Western Canon: The Books and the School of the Ages'; Books". EW.com. Geargiveer vanaf die oorspronklike op 23 Mei 2007. Besoek op 1 Mei 2011.
