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The Western canon

the books and school of the ages

by Harold Bloom

1994 578 pages eng ★ 4.0 (3 ratings)

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, neoconservati…

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