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090 $aPN81$b.B545 1995
100 1 $aBloom, Harold.
245 14$aThe Western canon :$bthe books and school of the ages /$cHarold Bloom.
250 $a1st Riverhead ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRiverhead Books,$c1995.
300 $ax, 546 p. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace, c1994.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 00$gPreface and prelude -- I$tOn the Canon --$tElegy for theCanon --$gII The$tAristocratic age --$tShakespeare, centerof the Canon --$gThe$tStrangeness of Dante: Ulysses and Beatrice --$tChaucer: the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and Shakespearean charcter --$tCervantes: the play of the world --$tMontaigne and Moliere: the Canonical elusivenessof the truth --$tMilton's Satan and Shakespeare --$tDr. Samuel Johnson, the Canonical critic --$tGoethe's Faust, Part Two: the countercanonical poem --$gIII The$tDemocratic Age --$tCanonical memory in the early Wordsworth and Jane Austen's Persuasion --$tWalt Whitman as center of the American canon --$tEmily Dickinson: blanks, transports and the dark --$gThe$tCanonical novel: Dicken's Bleak House, George Eliot's Middlemarch --$tTolstoy and heroism --$tIbsen: troll and Peer Gynt --$gIV The$tChaotic Age --$tFreud: a Shakespearean reading --$tProust: the true persuasion of sexual jealousy --$tJoyce Agon with Shakespeare --$tWoolf's Orlando: feminism as the love of reading --$tKafka: Canonical patience and "indestructibility" --$tBorges, Neruda, and Pessoa: Hispanic-Portuguese Whitman --$tBeckett...Joyce...Proust...Shakespeare --$gV$tCatalogingthe Canon --$tElegiac conclusion --$gAppendixes --$gThe$tTheocratic Age --$gThe$tAristotic Age --$gThe$tDemocratic Age --$gThe$tChaotic Age: a conical prophecy --$gIndex.
520 $aIncludes criticism and interpretation of William Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes, Montaigne, Moliere, John Milton, Samuel Johnson, Goethe, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen and Persuasion, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens and Bleak House, George Eliot and Middlemarch, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Freud, Proust, James Joyce and Ulysses, Virginia Woolf and Orlando, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, and Fernando Pessoa.
650 0$aCanon (Literature).
650 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism.