| Edition |
First Riverhead edition. |
| Description |
x, 546 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace, c1994. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Preface and prelude -- I On the Canon -- Elegy for the Canon -- II The Aristocratic age -- Shakespeare, center of the Canon -- The Strangeness of Dante: Ulysses and Beatrice -- Chaucer: the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and Shakespearean charcter -- Cervantes: the play of the world -- Montaigne and Moliere: the Canonical elusiveness of the truth -- Milton's Satan and Shakespeare -- Dr. Samuel Johnson, the Canonical critic -- Goethe's Faust, Part Two: the countercanonical poem -- III The Democratic Age -- Canonical memory in the early Wordsworth and Jane Austen's Persuasion -- Walt Whitman as center of the American canon -- Emily Dickinson: blanks, transports and the dark -- The Canonical novel: Dicken's Bleak HOuse, George Eliot's Middlemarch -- Tolstoy and heroism -- Ibsen: troll and Peer Gynt -- IV The Chaotic Age -- Freud: a Shakespearean reading -- Proust: the true persuasion of sexual jealousy -- Joyce Agon with Shakespeare -- Woolf's Orlando: feminism as the love of reading -- Kafka: Canonical patience and "indestructibility" -- Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa: Hispanic-Portuguese Whitman -- Beckett...Joyce...Proust...Shakespeare -- V Cataloging the Canon -- Elegiac conclusion -- Appendixes -- The Theocratic Age -- The Aristotic Age -- The Democratic Age -- The Chaotic Age: a conical prophecy -- Index. |
| Subject |
Canon (Literature)
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
1573225142 paperback |
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