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The Western Canon Author: Harold Bloom Publisher: Yilin Press
The Western Canon Author: Harold Bloom Publisher: Yilin Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Shakespeare or Cervantes, Homer or Dante, Chaucer or Rabelais, the real purpose of reading their works is to enhance the growth of the inner self. In-depth study of the classics will not make people better or worse, nor will it make citizens more useful or more harmful. The self-dialogue of the mind is not essentially a social reality. The whole meaning of Western classics is to make people make good use of their loneliness, and the ultimate form of this loneliness is an encounter between a person and his own death.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Harold Bloom (1930- ): An extremely influential literary theorist and critic in contemporary America. He has taught at famous universities such as Yale University, New York University and Harvard University. His main research areas include poetry criticism, theoretical criticism and religious criticism. His representative works include The Anxiety of Influence (1973), The Map of Misreading (1975), The Western Canon (1994), and Shakespeare: The Invention of Man (1998). He is known as "the most gifted, original and provocative literary critic in the Western tradition".
