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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 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.
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]
Dramatic genres; Comedy; Libretto; Play. historical; moral; Satire; Script; Tragedy; Tragicomedy; History; Ancient; Classical; Medieval; Modernist; Postmodern; Lists ...
Classic (or literary fiction): works with artistic/literary merit that are typically character-driven rather than plot-driven, following a character's inner story. They often include political criticism, social commentary, and reflections on humanity. [1] These works are part of an accepted literary canon and widely taught in schools. Coming-of-age
Traditionally, the canon of Sherlock Holmes consists of the 56 short stories and four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. [1] In this context, the term " canon " is an attempt to distinguish between Doyle's original works and subsequent works by other authors using the same characters.
Patricia Aakhus (1952–2012), The Voyage of Mael Duin's Curragh Rachel Aaron, Fortune's Pawn Atia Abawi Edward Abbey (1927–1989), The Monkey Wrench Gang Lynn Abbey (born 1948), Daughter of the Bright Moon Laura Abbot, My Name is Nell Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842–1893), Leah Mordecai Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958), poet, novelist and short story writer Hailey Abbott, Summer Boys ...
The novel Don Quixote (/ ˌ d ɒ n k iː ˈ h oʊ t i /; Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [1]) was written by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes.Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is one of the most influential works of literature from the Spanish Golden Age in the Spanish literary canon.