A report on Western canon
Body of high culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that is highly valued in the West: works that have achieved the status of classics.
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Classic book
3 linksBook accepted as being exemplary or particularly noteworthy.
Book accepted as being exemplary or particularly noteworthy.
These books can be published as a collection (such as Great Books of the Western World, Modern Library, or Penguin Classics) or presented as a list, such as Harold Bloom's list of books that constitute the Western canon.
Great Books of the Western World
2 linksSeries of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the great books in a 54-volume set.
Series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the great books in a 54-volume set.
The purposes they had in mind were for filling the gaps in their liberal education (notably including Hutchins' own self-confessed gaps) and to render the reader as an intellectually-rounded man or woman familiar with the Great Books of the Western canon and knowledgeable of the Great Ideas visited in the "Great Conversation" over the course of three millennia.
Harold Bloom
1 linksAmerican literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.
American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.
Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literary departments were focusing on what he derided as the "school of resentment" (multiculturalists, feminists, Marxists, and others).
The Western Canon
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book about western literature by the critic Harold Bloom, in which the author defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 mostly English language writers whom he sees as central to the canon.
Harvard Classics
1 links50-volume series of classic works of world literature, important speeches, and historical documents compiled and edited by Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot.
50-volume series of classic works of world literature, important speeches, and historical documents compiled and edited by Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot.
The Everyman's Library is a series of reprints of classic literature, primarily from the Western canon.
Postcolonial literature
1 linksLiterature by people from formerly colonized countries.
Literature by people from formerly colonized countries.
They advocated for its inclusion in literary curricula, hitherto dominated by the British canon.
Miscellany
0 linksCollection of various pieces of writing by different authors.
Collection of various pieces of writing by different authors.
In contrast to anthologies, whose aim is to give a selective and canonical view of literature, miscellanies were produced for the entertainment of a contemporary audience and so instead emphasise collectiveness and popularity.
List of women composers by birth date
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Women composers of Western classical music are disproportionately absent from music textbooks and concert programs that constitute the Western canon, even though many women have composed music.
Everyman's Library
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Everyman's Library is a series of reprints of classic literature, primarily from the Western canon.
Classical music
2 linksClassical music generally refers to the formal musical tradition of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
Classical music generally refers to the formal musical tradition of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
Almost all of the composers who are described in music textbooks on classical music and whose works are widely performed as part of the standard concert repertoire are male composers, even though there has been a large number of women composers throughout the classical music period.