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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • author or an ascribed author Literary canon, an accepted body of works considered as high culture Western canon, the body of high culture literature,...
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  • Canon law (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    biblical canon in traditional Christendom. Western scholars have classified the books of the canon into two categories — the narrower canon, which consists...
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    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...
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  • and delivery. Western canon: the body of literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that is highly valued in Western culture Canon. Oxford English...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • the most important ideas, clustered under 102 "Great Ideas", of the Western canon. The term “syntopicon” as well as "Great Ideas" were coined specifically...
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    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...
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    Western law comprises the legal traditions of Western culture, with roots in Roman law and canon law. As Western culture shares a Graeco-Roman Classical...
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    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"...
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    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...
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  • Critic Harold Bloom cites the novel as a canonical work in his book The Western Canon. Vidal called Myra the favorite of his books, and published a sequel...
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  • Reich-Ranicki's anthology of exemplary German literature Der Kanon Western canon Great books Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon was originally written...
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    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...
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    The Apostolic Canons, also called Apostolic canons (Latin: Canones apostolorum, "Canons of the Apostles"), Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles...
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  • remained part of the tragedic repertoire, becoming a classic of the Western canon, and the most frequently performed Greek tragedy in the 20th century...
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  • Notícias. 23 April 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2021. Bloom, Harold (1994). The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace...
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    its reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the Western canon. Written over a period of seventeen years and published in 1939, the...
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  • November 22, 2023. "The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon - Dana Schwartz - Paperback". HarperCollins. Retrieved March 29, 2019...
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  • 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...
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    2021. Bloom, Harold (1994). "Beckett…Joyce…Proust…Shakespeare". The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace...
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