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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 author defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon.
Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University. [1] In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world". [ 2 ]
Jonathan David Cahn (born 1959) is an American Messianic Jewish Rabbi, author, and novelist known for his debut novel The Harbinger. He is the founder and leader of the Beth Israel Worship Center in Wayne, New Jersey .
Pages in category "Books by Harold Bloom" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. The American Religion;
Most of the book is devoted to critical analyses of the plays and not explanation of the book's subtitle; though these analyses are "richly packed with brilliant observations", they "do not add up to the kind of systematic support Bloom's central claim deserves and demands", and not enough attention is given to the ramifications of that claim. [5]
The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy is a 1979 fantasy novel by American critic Harold Bloom, inspired by his reading of David Lindsay's fantasy novel A Voyage to Arcturus (1920). The plot, which adapts Lindsay's characters and narrative and features themes drawn from Gnosticism , concerns Thomas Perscors, who is transported from Earth to ...
In this book, Bloom begins this practice by looking at religious groups in the United States. Bloom identifies Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James as previous scholars who practiced religious criticism of American religion. [4] He concludes that in America there is a single, dominant religion of which many nominally distinct denominations are ...
Bloom took the word clinamen from Lucretius, who refers to swerves of atoms that make change possible. [3] Tessera – Bloom defines this as "completion and antithesis". The author "completes" his precursor's work, retaining its terms but meaning them in a new sense, "as though the precursor had failed to go far enough".