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''The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages'' is a 1994 book by Harold Bloom on Western literature. It is his best-known book alongside ''The Anxiety of Influence'', and was a surprise bestseller upon its release in the United States. In the book, Bloom defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon:〔Harold Bloom, ''The Western Canon'', 1994, p. 2〕 *William Shakespeare *Dante Alighieri *Geoffrey Chaucer *Miguel de Cervantes *Michel de Montaigne *Molière *John Milton *Samuel Johnson *Johann Wolfgang von Goethe *William Wordsworth *Jane Austen *Walt Whitman *Emily Dickinson *Charles Dickens *George Eliot *Leo Tolstoy *Henrik Ibsen *Sigmund Freud *Marcel Proust *James Joyce *Virginia Woolf *Franz Kafka *Jorge Luis Borges *Pablo Neruda *Fernando Pessoa *Samuel Beckett The book argues against what Bloom calls the "School of Resentment", in which he includes feminist literary criticism, Marxist literary criticism, Lacanians, New Historicism, Deconstructionists, and semioticians. The book also contained four appendices that listed works that at the time he considered canonical, stretching from earliest scriptures to Tony Kushner's ''Angels in America''. Bloom would later disown the list, saying that it was written at his editor's insistence and distracted from the book's intention. ==Reception== Norman Fruman wrote that "''The Western Canon'' is a heroically brave, formidably learned and often unbearably sad response to the present state of the humanities". A. S. Byatt wrote: Bloom's canon is in many ways mine. It consists of those writers all other writers have to know and by whom they measure themselves. A culture's canon is an evolving consensus of individual canons. Canonical writers changed the medium, the language they were working in. People who merely describe what is happening now don't last. Mine includes writers I don't necessarily like. D.H. Lawrence, though I hate him in a way, Jane Austen, too.〔Lawrence, Tim; Guttridge, Peter. "Reloading the ancient canon". ''The Independent'' (London). 21 November 1994.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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