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Reimagining the Western canon


Reimagining the Western canon - Medium

It provides the cultural foundation on which others can build. A canon is necessary, even just for university reading lists. Exploring the great ...

Rewriting the Western Canon - FSG Work in Progress

The project, at this point in the history of the world, is to create storytelling that provokes readers and listeners out of complacency and into revolution.

Redrawing the Western Canon: Race, Identification, and 'High' Art in ...

Redrawing the Western Canon: Race, Identification, and 'High' Art in Comics | Racial Reckoning Through Comics ...

Rethinking the Canon: What Makes a Classic? - Banished

But often people use “Western” synonymously with “European.” When you think about the Western canon, you're not thinking about a European canon.

Western literary canon is out of fashion - Scot Scoop News

In western literature, the texts considered to be canon are generally older, most containing similar themes, and written by demographically ...

Harold Bloom Creates a Massive List of Works in The "Western ...

The Western Canon is tightly focused on only 26 authors, but in a series of four appendices, Bloom lists the hundreds of other names he considers canonical.

What's your opinion on the concept of a “western canon?” - Reddit

To me, the Western canon is the same concept. It's simply a set of shared stories that the progression of our thought and values of our ...

Contemplating the Western Canon: What's Wrong, What's Right, And ...

If you're looking for a more forceful definition you might prefer the one found on Wikipedia's page on the Western canon: “The term Western ...

Reimagining the Canon to Study Youth Culture - NCTE

The focus of February's NCTE chat was the “Canon of Our Community,” which called on educators to reimagine the purpose, content, and form of the ...

The Western Canon - Wikipedia

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book about Western literature by the American literary critic Harold Bloom, in which the ...

Western Literary Canon in Context | The Great Courses

A panoramic look at literature, 'The Western Literary Canon in Context' proves to you the central importance of these cultural milestones and reveals their ...

Harold Bloom's strange defence of the Western Canon - YouTube

This lecture briefly discusses the idea of a literary canon, as opposed to the Biblical canon. The former unlike the latter can admit of ...

In Defense of a Literary Canon - The Kenyon Review

The best argument for the need for a literary canon. After all, as writers, how can we expect to learn how to write and to improve our own writing?

The Wisest of Counselors: The Western Canon and Those Who ...

A rigorous, passionate defense of these books is not based on political winds, which always are ephemeral. That leaves open the possibility that over time, ...

Bloom on the Western Canon - New Learning Online

Indeed, it is now virtually impossible to master the Western Canon. Not only would it mean absorbing well over three thousand books, many, if not most, marked ...

Does the “Western canon” still serve a purpose in our contemporary ...

The Western canon is like a grandfather who tells of his past so that his progeny will learn how to, and to not, live. In the same way we study ...

Be Radical: Reimagining the 8th Grade Literary Canon - AMLE

A social justice literature curriculum relies on introducing these different types of texts that expose young readers to the experiences of the disenfranchised.

The Bloom Has Faded - The American Scholar

In 1994, the industry was given a shot of adrenalin by the publication of Harold Bloom's The Western Canon. In his uncompromising defense of ...

The Western Canon May Yet Endure | City Journal

The canonical status of past writers is cemented by the handful of living writers eligible for canonical status in the future, in what amounts to an ongoing ...

Harold Bloom's “The Western Canon” - A Pilgrim in Narnia

Harold Bloom's The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages was a sensation when it appeared in 1994. Harold Bloom, a curmudgeonly ...