| The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Harold Bloom |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Literature |
| Genre(s) | Literary criticism |
| Publisher | Harcourt Brace |
| Pages | 578 |
| ISBN | 9781573225144 |
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book by Harold Bloom on Western literature. Bloom defends the concept of the Western canon by focusing on 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon:[1][2]
The book argues against what Bloom calls the "School of Resentment", in which he includes Feminist literary criticism, Marxist literary criticism, Lacanians, New Historicism, Deconstructionists, and Semioticians. Norman Fruman wrote that "The Western Canon is a heroically brave, formidably learned and often unbearably sad response to the present state of the humanities".[3]