The Western Canon by Harold Bloom

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/37177 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Western Canon Author: Harold Bloom Narrator: James Armstrong Format: mp3 Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins Release date: 10-26-00 Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 237 ratings Genres: Essays Publisher's Summary: Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New Historicism. Insisting instead upon "the autonomy of aesthetic," Bloom places Shakespeare at the center of the Western Canon.....