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The Western canon : the books and school of the ages
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- ISBN: 1573225142 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781573225144 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
x, 546 p. ; 23 cm.
print - Edition: 1st Riverhead ed
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 1995.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace, c1994 Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace, c1994. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Formatted Contents Note: | I. On the Canon. 1. An Elegy for the Canon -- II. The Aristocratic Age. 2. Shakespeare, Center of the Canon. 3. The Strangeness of Dante: Ulysses and Beatrice. 4. Chaucer: The Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and Shakespearean Character. 5. Cervantes: The Play of the World. 6. Montaigne and Moliere: The Canonical Elusiveness of the Truth. 7. Milton's Satan and Shakespeare. 8. Dr. Samuel Johnson, the Canonical Critic. 9. Goethe's Faust, Part Two: The Countercanonical Poem -- III. The Democratic Age. 10. Canonical Memory in Early Wordsworth and Jane Austen's Persuasion. 11. Walt Whitman as Center of the American Canon. 12. Emily Dickinson: Blanks, Transports, the Dark. 13. The Canonical Novel: Dickens's Bleak House, George Eliot's Middlemarch. 14. Tolstoy and Heroism. 15. Ibsen: Trolls and Peer Gynt -- IV. The Chaotic Age. 16. Freud: A Shakespearean Reading. 17. Proust: The True Persuasion of Sexual Jealousy. 18. Joyce's Agon with Shakespeare. 19. Woolf's Orlando: Feminism as the Love of Reading. 20. Kafka: Canonical Patience and "Indestructibility" 21. Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa: Hispanic-Portuguese Whitman. 22. Beckett...Joyce...Proust...Shakespeare -- V. Cataloging the Canon. 23. Elegiac Conclusion. A. The Theocratic Age. B. The Aristocratic Age. C. The Democratic Age. D. The Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy. |
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| Subject: | Literature -- History and criticism Canon (Literature) |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Interurban Library | PN 81 B545 1995 (Text) | 26040002741813 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
