Canon (Literature)

93 books

Decamerone

Giovanni Boccaccio

1573 ★ 4.1

The Western canon

Harold Bloom

1994 ★ 4.0

Arabian Nights

Scheherazade

1932 ★ 4.3

Why read the classics?

Italo Calvino

1999

Bliss, and other stories

Gerri Kimber, Enda Duffy, Katherine Mansfield et al.

1920 ★ 4.7

The intellectuals and the masses

John Carey

1993

The Silent Woman

Janet Malcolm

1994

What is world literature?

David Damrosch

2003

A general introduction to the great books and to a liberal education

Mortimer J. Adler

1959

The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, Teaching with, A Guide for Instructors

Lisa C. Harper

1996

Classics for pleasure

Michael Dirda

2007

The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon

John Fletcher

1990 ★ 3.8

The furies

Natalie Haynes

2014

Aberrations in Black

Roderick A. Ferguson

2004

Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age

Robert Alter

1990

Translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame

André Lefevere

1992

Cult fiction

Clive Bloom

1996

Loose Canons

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

1992

Katie's canon

Katie G. Cannon

1995

Beneath the American Renaissance

David S. Reynolds

1988

The Language of Heroes

Martin, Richard P.

1989

The pleasures of reading

Robert Alter

1989

The classic

Frank Kermode

1975

The American Classics

Denis Donoghue

2005

Making the modern reader

Barbara M. Benedict

1996

Victorian poetry

Isobel Armstrong

1871

Feminist fabulation

Marleen S. Barr

1992

Canon and creativity

Robert Alter

2000

An appetite for poetry

Frank Kermode

1989

Professions of desire

Bonnie Zimmerman, George E. Haggerty

1995