The Western Canon
The Books and School of the Ages
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Narrated by:
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James Armstrong
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By:
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Harold Bloom
About this listen
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 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 while Dante, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens, Whitman, Dickinson, Proust, and 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.
©1994 by Harold Bloom (P)1997 by Blackstone AudiobooksListeners also enjoyed...
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- 04-02-19
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The chapters on this audiobook , DO NOT MATCH. Very frustrating and hard to follow when reading individual chapters of the book.
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- 09-07-19
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- 27-10-19
Atrocious sound quality
This recording, done in an underwater telephone box, is delivered to you via an electric shaver. Truly atrocious sound quality - what a pity. How someone had the nerve to release this shoddily produced audiobook, I cannot imagine.
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