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Dante, Homer and Virgil in Raphael's Parnassus fresco (1511), key figures in the Western canonDetail of Sappho from Raphael's Parnassus (1510–11), shown alongside other poets. In her left hand, she holds a scroll with her name written on it.Picasso, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier) (1910), oil on canvas, 100.3 × 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York
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 status of classics. However, not all these works originate in the Western world, and such works are also valued throughout the globe. It is "a certain Western intellectual tradition that goes from, say, Socrates to Wittgenstein in philosophy, and from Homer to James Joyce in literature".[1]
Recent discussions on it emphasize cultural diversity within the canon. The canons of music and visual arts have broadened to encompass overlooked periods, while newer media like cinema grapple with a precarious position. Criticism arises, with some viewing changes as prioritizing activism over aesthetic values, often associated with Marxist critical theory.[2] Another critique highlights a narrow interpretation of the West, dominated by British and American culture, prompting calls for a more diverse canon.[2]
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^ abWilczek, Piotr (2006). "Czy istnieje kanon literatury polskiej?". In Cudak, Romuald (ed.). Literatura polska w świecie (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Gnome. pp. 13–23. ISBN 978-83-87819-05-7.
The Westerncanon 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 WesternCanon: 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 Westerncanon, 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 Westerncanon 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 Westerncanon. The list of works...
the Western World, Modern Library, or Penguin Classics) or presented as a list, such as Harold Bloom's list of books that constitute the Westerncanon. Although...
direct and figurative symbol in literary and artistic works in the Westerncanon. Philomela was the younger of two daughters of Pandion I, King of Athens...
biblical canon in traditional Christendom. Western scholars have classified the books of the canon into two categories — the narrower canon, which consists...
the most important ideas, clustered under 102 "Great Ideas", of the Westerncanon. The term “syntopicon” as well as "Great Ideas" were coined specifically...
The Odyssey is regarded as one of the most significant works of the Westerncanon. The first English translation of the Odyssey was in the 16th century...
F. R. Leavis pursued the definition of high culture, by way of the Westerncanon of literature. Media theorist Steven Johnson writes that, unlike popular...
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...
intellectually rounded man or woman familiar with the Great Books of the Westerncanon and knowledgeable of the Great Ideas visited in the "Great Conversation"...
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...
its reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the Westerncanon. Written over a period of seventeen years and published in 1939, the...
The terms "classic book" and "Westerncanon" are closely related concepts, but they are not necessarily synonymous. A "canon" refers to a list of books considered...
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...
November 22, 2023. "The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the WesternCanon - Dana Schwartz - Paperback". HarperCollins. Retrieved March 29, 2019...
2021. Bloom, Harold (1994). "Beckett…Joyce…Proust…Shakespeare". The WesternCanon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace...
Portrait Masterpieces 1900–2000 Virtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces Westerncanon "The Theft That Made Mona Lisa a Masterpiece". NPR. July 30, 2011. Retrieved...
images." Classicism, as Clark noted, implies a canon of widely accepted ideal forms, whether in the Westerncanon that he was examining in The Nude (1956)....
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