The Western Canon [Audiobook] download free by Sterling Professor Of The Humanities Harold Bloom
- Listen audiobook: The Western Canon
- Author: Sterling Professor Of The Humanities Harold Bloom
- Release date: 1999/2/20
- Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781573225144
- Rating: 8.91 of 10
- Votes: 889
- Review by: Ashton Waite
- Review rating: 8.99 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/24
- Duration: 6H44M10S in 256 kbps (109.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-31
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MPEG-4 ALS, WAV, WMA, Vorbis, MPEG4, MP3 (compression CBC, RAR, TAR.7Z, ZIP, LZMA, ALZ, JAR)
- Total pages original book: 546
- Includes a PDF summary of 58 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 42M19S (11.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Reference Works, Literary Studies: General, Literary Essays, Literary Theory
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 26.81 USD
- Dimensions: 151.38x226.06x34.29mm
- Weight: 721.21g
- Printed by: Warner Books
- Published in: New York, United States
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