The Western canon is the embodiment of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly cherished across the Western hemisphere...
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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...
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author or an ascribed author Literary canon, an accepted body of works considered as high culture Western canon, the body of high culture literature,...
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Canon law (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority...
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Harold Bloom (section The Western Canon)
Philosophical Society in 1995. Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literature departments were focusing on what he derided...
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the Western World, Modern Library, or Penguin Classics or presented as a list, such as Harold Bloom's list of books that constitute the Western canon. Although...
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containing prominent western authors, poets, and pieces of literature. The best of Western literature is considered to be the Western canon. The list of works...
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A Syntopicon (redirect from Great Ideas of the Western World)
the most important ideas, clustered under 102 "Great Ideas", of the Western canon. The term “syntopicon” as well as "Great Ideas" were coined specifically...
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and delivery. Western canon: the body of literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that is highly valued in Western culture Canon. Oxford English...
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Philomela (section Appearances in the Western canon)
direct and figurative symbol in literary and artistic works in the Western canon. Philomela was the younger of two daughters of Pandion I, King of Athens...
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The Odyssey is regarded as one of the most significant works of the Western canon. The first English translation of the Odyssey was in the 16th century...
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A biblical canon is a set of texts (also called "books") which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as part of the Bible. The...
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returned to school to take writing classes at night, where he discovered the western philosophical tradition. After his early schooling and work, he went on...
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biblical canon in traditional Christendom. Western scholars have classified the books of the canon into two categories — the narrower canon, which consists...
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Census. Cañon City is the principal city of the Cañon City, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area and is a part of the Front Range Urban Corridor. Cañon City...
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extensively on the recognition of African-American literature as part of the Western canon. In addition to producing and hosting previous series on the history...
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In canon law, a canon designates some law promulgated by a synod, an ecumenical council, or an individual bishop. The word "canon" comes from the Greek...
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Canon (also known as the Canon in D, P 37) is an accompanied canon by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel. The canon was originally scored for...
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intellectually rounded man or woman familiar with the Great Books of the Western canon and knowledgeable of the Great Ideas visited in the "Great Conversation"...
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F. R. Leavis pursued the definition of high culture, by way of the Western canon of literature. Media theorist Steven Johnson writes that, unlike popular...
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remained part of the tragedic repertoire, becoming a classic of the Western canon and the most frequently performed Greek tragedy in the 20th century...
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The Apostolic Canons, also called Apostolic canons (Latin: Canones apostolorum, "Canons of the Apostles"), Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles...
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Reich-Ranicki's anthology of exemplary German literature Der Kanon Western canon Great books Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon was originally written...
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An artistic canon of body proportions (or aesthetic canon of proportion), in the sphere of visual arts, is a formally codified set of criteria deemed...
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(including the natural sciences), the Western canons of classical literature, the fine arts, and the history of Western civilization. It focuses on human...
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considered Voltaire's magnum opus and is often listed as part of the Western canon. It is among the most frequently taught works of French literature....
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images." Classicism, as Clark noted, implies a canon of widely accepted ideal forms, whether in the Western canon that he was examining in The Nude (1956)....
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November 22, 2023. "The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon - Dana Schwartz - Paperback". HarperCollins. Retrieved March 29, 2019...
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is the third book in Kennedy's Albany Cycle. It is included in the Western Canon of the critic Harold Bloom. The novel was adapted into a 1987 film of...
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Notícias. 23 April 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2021. Bloom, Harold (1994). The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace...
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