The Western Canon The Books and School of the

More than a required reading list, The Western Canon is a major work of vision by the foremost literary critic in America. In defining the essential masterworks of world literature--the Western Canon--Bloom enlightens and inspires all readers to return to the special joys of reading that our literary tradition offers. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University. The author of numerous books, including The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human and The Book of J, Bloom is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University, a member of the American Academy, and the recipient of many other honors and awards.

Preface and Prelude	p. 1
On the Canon	p. 13
An Elegy for the Canon	p. 15
The Aristocratic Age	p. 43
Shakespeare, Center of the Canon	p. 45
The Strangeness of Dante: Ulysses and Beatrice	p. 76
Chaucer: The Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and Shakespearean Character	p. 105
Cervantes: The Play of the World	p. 127
Montaigne and Moliere: The Canonical Elusiveness of the Truth	p. 146
Milton's Satan and Shakespeare	p. 169
Dr. Samuel Johnson, the Canonical Critic	p. 183
Goethe's Faust, Part Two: The Countercanonical Poem	p. 203
The Democratic Age	p. 237
Canonical Memory in Early Wordsworth and Jane Austen's Persuasion	p. 239
Walt Whitman as Center of the American Canon	p. 264
Emily Dickinson: Blanks, Transports, the Dark	p. 291
The Canonical Novel: Dickens's Bleak House, George Eliot's Middlemarch	p. 310
Tolstoy and Heroism	p. 332
Ibsen: Trolls and Peer Gynt	p. 350
The Chaotic Age	p. 369
Freud: A Shakespearean Reading	p. 371
Proust: The True Persuasion of Sexual Jealousy	p. 395
Joyce's Agon with Shakespeare	p. 413
Woolf's Orlando: Feminism as the Love of Reading	p. 433
Kafka: Canonical Patience and "Indestructibility"	p. 447
Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa: Hispanic-Portuguese Whitman	p. 463
Beckett...Joyce...Proust...Shakespeare	p. 493
Cataloging the Canon	p. 515
Elegiac Conclusion	p. 517
Appendixes	p. 529
The Theocratic Age	p. 531
The Aristocratic Age	p. 534
The Democratic Age	p. 540
The Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy	p. 548
Index	p. 569
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