The Western canon : the books and school of the ages
Includes criticism and interpretation of William Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes, Montaigne, Moliere, John Milton, Samuel Johnson, Goethe, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen and Persuasion, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens and Bleak House, George Eliot and Middlemarch, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Freud, Proust, James Joyce and Ulysses, Virginia Woolf and Orlando, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, and Fernando Pessoa
Print Book, English, 1995
1st Riverhead ed View all formats and editions
Riverhead Books, New York, 1995
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 546 pages ; 23 cm
9781573225144, 1573225142
32013000
Preface and PreludeI. On the Canon1. An Elegy for the CanonII. The Aristocratic Age2. Shakespeare, Center of the Canon3. The Strangeness of Dante: Ulysses and Beatrice4. Chaucer: The Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and Shakespearean Character5. Cervantes: The Play of the World6. Montaigne and Molière: The Canonical Elusiveness of the Truth7. Milton's Satan and Shakespeare8. Dr. Samuel Johnson, the Canonical Critic9. Goethe's Faust, Part Two: The Countercanonical PoemIII. The Democratic Age10. Canonical Memory in Early Wordsworth and Jane Austen's Persuasion11. Walt Whitman as Center of the American Canon12. Emily Dickinson: Blanks, Transports, the Dark13. The Canonical Novel: Dickens's Bleak House, George Eliot's Middlemarch14. Tolstoy and Heroism15. Ibsen: Trolls and Peer GyntIV. The Chaotic Age16. Freud: A Shakespearian Reading17. Proust: The True Persuasion of Sexual Jealousy18. Joyce's Agon with Shakespeare19. Woolf's Orlando: Feminism as the Love of Reading20. Kafka: Canonical Patience and "Indestructability"21. Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa: Hispanic-Portuguese Whitman22. Beckett...Joyce...Proust...ShakespeareV. Cataloging the Canon23. Elegiac ConclusionAppendixes:A. The Theocratic AgeB. The Aristocratic AgeC. The Democratic AgeD. The Chaotic Age: A Canonical ProphecyIndex
Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace, ©1994
Includes index