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Western canon

The Western canon is the body of high-culture literature, philosophy, art, music and architecture from the Western world, with works classified within it considered to be—and celebrated—as classics in the context of Western civilization. The concept has been discussed and debated in cultural criticism with regards to Western exceptionalism and which…

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Literary canon

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related to Further reading · 77
Western canon → Addison, Anna, Aphra Behn, Aston, Bernard, Bloom, Bloomsbury Academic, Boston, Boulder, Brzyski, Bulgaria, Canon, Carpeaux, Chicago, Chicago Press, Critical Theory, Cultural, Dean, Debating, Duke University Press
related to Classic book · 50
Western canon → Alexandrian Library, Although, Attic Nights, Aulus Gellius, Bloom, Cervantes, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Charles Dickens, Chinese, Christian Church Fathers, Classic, Classics, Dante Alighieri, Eliot, Everyman's Library, Ezra Pound, Geoffrey Chaucer, Goethe, Great Books, Greek
related to Debate · 26
Western canon → Ages, Allan Bloom's The Closing, American Mind, Bloom, But, Classicist Bernard Knox, European Males, Failed Democracy, Great Books, Harold Bloom, His, How Higher Education Has, Humanities, Impoverished, In, Jefferson Lecture, Knox, School, Similarly, Souls
related to Visual arts · 21
Western canon → Architects, Art, Florentine, Giorgio Vasari, Giotto, Goya, Greece, His Lives, In, Italy, Most Excellent Painters, Much, Northern European, Old, Renaissance, Roman Catholic, Rome, Sculptors, The, Vasari's
is a · 1
Western canon → body of high-culture literature

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