Incluye índice

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.

"Since the literary canon is at issue here, I include only those religious, philosophical, historical, and scientific writings that are themselves of great aesthetic interest. I would think that, of all the books that are in this first list, once the reader is conversant with the Bible, Homer, Plato, the Athenian dramatists, and Virgil, the crucial work is the Koran"--P. web editorial

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