{"product_id":"western-canon","title":"Western Canon","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWestern Canon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eHarold Bloom\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780151957477\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHoughton Mifflin Harcourt\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1994\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition, First Printing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e578\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eHarold 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 the 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 Dante, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens, Whitman, Dickinson, Proust, 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. Bloom concludes this provocative, trenchant work with a complete list of essential writers and books - his vision of the Canon.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Western Canon | Harold Bloom | Hardcover | 9780151957477 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks D 1760222","offer_id":49199071953048,"sku":"1760222","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81OIqCybrpL.jpg?v=1780694341","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/western-canon","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}