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The Great Books of the Western World in 60 volumes. A university or college Great Books Program is a program inspired by the Great Books movement begun in the United States in the 1920s by John Erskine of Columbia University, which proposed to improve the higher education system by returning it to the western liberal arts tradition of broad cross-disciplinary learning.
The term canon derives from the Greek κανών (kanon), meaning "rule", and thence via Latin and Old French into English. [1] The concept in English usage is very broad: in a general sense it refers to being one (adjectival) or a group (noun) of official, authentic or approved rules or laws, particularly ecclesiastical; or group of official, authentic, or approved literary or artistic works ...
Norman Fruman of The New York Times wrote that "The Western Canon is a heroically brave, formidably learned and often unbearably sad response to the present state of the humanities." [4] The novelist 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 ...
The main body of The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature, however, is focused upon an overview of the classic canon of English literature extending from Beowulf to Evelyn Waugh. There is another chapter after this discussing American literature from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Flannery O'Connor. Each chapter has:
Films about physics (4 C, 7 P) P. Fictional power sources (1 C, 7 P) T. Fiction about time (4 C, 17 P) Pages in category "Fiction about physics"
The canon of a work of fiction is "the body of works taking place in a particular fictional world that are widely considered to be official or authoritative; [especially] those created by the original author or developer of the world". [2] Canon is contrasted with, or used as the basis for, works of fan fiction and other derivative works. [3]
John Charlton Polkinghorne KBE FRS (16 October 1930 – 9 March 2021) was an English theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest. [10] A prominent and leading voice explaining the relationship between science and religion, he was professor of mathematical physics at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1979, when he resigned his chair to study for the priesthood, becoming an ...
Canon (fiction), the material accepted as officially written by an author or an ascribed author Literary canon , an accepted body of works considered as high culture Western canon , the body of high culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that is highly valued in the West