The western canon by harold bloom6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() He calls the critics the School of Resentment, who want to replace these works with representative modern authors. Harold Bloom is less diplomatic than I am. The perspectives of most represented ruling and affluent classes, and the dominant powers of the world. Writers of other cultures were non-existent as were those who were BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and LGBTQ. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alternate reading lists have flourished, classics departments have closed down, and course offerings focused on those in the “traditional” canon have been done away with in many English departments. With the continued growth of feminist, anti-racist, post-colonial, and queer criticism, many of the works Bloom treats in this volume have been further marginalized. Harold Bloom wrote this book in 1994 at a time when the “dead white males” who constitute most of the works considered part of “the Western Canon” were under attack. Summary: A spirited defense of the traditional Western Canon of literature against what Bloom calls the “School of Resentment” and a discussion of 26 representative works Bloom would include. New York: Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt Publishing, 1994, this edition 2014. ![]()
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