Talk:The Western Canon

School of Resentment was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 19 February 2021 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into The Western Canon. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

No mention of criticism[edit]

SURELY* there has been criticism of this work since it came out in 1994; however there is no mention of that.

I would really like to see "the other side of the story."

In my opinion Bloom's thesis essentially boils down to, "everybody SAYS it's good, so it MUST be good if it's in the Western Canon. I mean . . . it's SHAKESPEARE, for crying out loud!!!" What do anti-canonizers say in *response* to that? Some of the answers to Bloom (1994) may be obvious but some may be more subtle and complex, and it would be nice to see what they are. There *must* have been a discussion stimulated by this work; and yet there is no mention of that.

68.196.248.241 (talk) 03:39, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism: In particular, the hilariously disproportional amount of literature written in English, as opposed to e.g. French and German, and then calling it "Western".

Main article[edit]

Is this article really needed? Perhaps it should be merged into the main article, where Bloom is already mentioned? Rwood128 (talk) 13:49, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

All of the content here could easily fit into Bloom's own article. WP Ludicer (talk) 10:24, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The gender parenthetical in sentence 1 is snark and should be removed. Unless, that is, one intends irony. Mickleby (talk) 19:09, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Subtitle[edit]

Is there a reason we include the subtitle in the name? I'm pretty sure most book articles do not include the subtitle. Should we rename it? Squandermania (talk) 00:28, 16 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]