Facts about Harold Bloom and the Western Canon

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   In The Western Canon, Bloom divided literary history into four ages: Theocratic, Aristocratic, Democratic, and Chaotic.

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   Bloom organized The Western Canon around the concept of the 'Anxiety of Influence,' his earlier theory about how writers struggle with their literary predecessors.

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   The Western Canon provoked fierce debate by explicitly attacking academic multiculturalism and the School of Resentment, Bloom's term for ideologically driven literary critics.

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   Published in 1994, The Western Canon by Harold Bloom identified twenty-six authors as central to the Western literary tradition.

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   Harold Bloom's The Western Canon argues for a list of great literary works centered on Shakespeare as the ultimate touchstone of canonical value.

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