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Harold Bloom's Western Canon: What's the Use?

dc.contributor.authorShalom, Christopher
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Artsen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.external-examinern/aen_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorJason W. Haslamen_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerJerry Whiteen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerDavid Evansen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorTrevor Rossen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-01T14:05:37Z
dc.date.available2017-09-01T14:05:37Z
dc.date.defence2017-08-31
dc.date.issued2017-09-01T14:05:37Z
dc.description.abstractContemporary academics writing on value and the humanities have largely left the frantic and apocalyptic rhetoric of the “canon wars” behind, returning to more nuanced arguments about literature’s political and social utility or readdressing fundamental questions of definition. In the public sphere, however, pronouncements about the irrelevance of the humanities remain constant, and apparently persuasive. This paper revisits Harold Bloom’s 1994 surprise bestseller The Western Canon, investigating the possibility that his ideas around the use and value of literature are not inherently apolitical, as he claims, and that they might even be reoriented towards a broadly appealing, positive argument for the study of literature.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/73254
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectBloom, Harold, 1930en_US
dc.subjectCanonen_US
dc.subjectLiterary Canonen_US
dc.subjectRancière, Jacquesen_US
dc.subjectCanon Warsen_US
dc.titleHarold Bloom's Western Canon: What's the Use?en_US

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