The Western canon is the body of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly valued in the West, works that have achieved...

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book about Western literature by the American literary critic Harold Bloom, in which the...

author or an ascribed author Literary canon, an accepted body of works considered as high culture Western canon, the body of high culture literature,...

Canon law (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority...

Philosophical Society in 1995. Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literature departments were focusing on what he derided...

containing prominent western authors, poets, and pieces of literature. The best of Western literature is considered to be the Western canon. The list of works...

and delivery. Western canon: the body of literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that is highly valued in Western culture Canon. Oxford English...

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. Although...

In canon law, a canon designates some law promulgated by a synod, an ecumenical council, or an individual bishop. The word "canon" comes from the Greek...

biblical canon in traditional Christendom. Western scholars have classified the books of the canon into two categories — the narrower canon, which consists...

A biblical canon is a set of texts (also called "books") which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as part of the Bible. The...

The Odyssey is regarded as one of the most significant works of the Western canon. The first English translation of the Odyssey was in the 16th century...

the most important ideas, clustered under 102 "Great Ideas", of the Western canon. The term “syntopicon” as well as "Great Ideas" were coined specifically...

Canon (also known as the Canon in D, P 37) is an accompanied canon by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel. The canon was originally scored for...

direct and figurative symbol in literary and artistic works in the Western canon. Philomela was the younger of two daughters of Pandion I, King of Athens...

F. R. Leavis pursued the definition of high culture, by way of the Western canon of literature. Media theorist Steven Johnson writes that, unlike popular...

Census. Cañon City is the principal city of the Cañon City, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area and is a part of the Front Range Urban Corridor. Cañon City...

November 22, 2023. "The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon - Dana Schwartz - Paperback". HarperCollins. Retrieved March 29, 2019...

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"...

extensively on the recognition of African-American literature as part of the Western canon. In addition to producing and hosting previous series on the history...

An artistic canon of body proportions (or aesthetic canon of proportion), in the sphere of visual arts, is a formally codified set of criteria deemed...

as highly successful modern re-interpretations of a classic of the western canon of visual art. Of the old masters, Bacon favored Titian, Rembrandt,...

Reich-Ranicki's anthology of exemplary German literature Der Kanon Western canon Great books Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon was originally written...

Canonization of scripture, introducing a Biblical canon A literary canon, such as the Western canon "The Canonization", a poem by John Donne Another term...

The terms "classic book" and "Western canon" are closely related concepts, but they are not necessarily synonymous. A "canon" refers to a list of books considered...

remained part of the tragedic repertoire, becoming a classic of the Western canon, and the most frequently performed Greek tragedy in the 20th century...

education based on the liberal arts (including the natural sciences), the canons of classical literature, the fine arts, and the history of civilization...

The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language. It is the most complete...

The Apostolic Canons, also called Apostolic canons (Latin: Canones apostolorum, "Canons of the Apostles"), Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles...

images." Classicism, as Clark noted, implies a canon of widely accepted ideal forms, whether in the Western canon that he was examining in The Nude (1956)....