Western canon

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Western_canon

GPTKB entity

Statements (61)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:literature
gptkbp:associatedWith	Western culture
gptkbp:criticizedFor	Eurocentrism lack of diversity
gptkbp:debatedBy	literary critics
gptkbp:discusses	gptkb:The_Western_Canon_(book)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Western canon
gptkbp:includes	gptkb:Charles_Dickens gptkb:Dante_Alighieri gptkb:Emily_Dickinson gptkb:Franz_Kafka gptkb:Fyodor_Dostoevsky gptkb:Geoffrey_Chaucer gptkb:Homer gptkb:James_Joyce gptkb:Jane_Austen gptkb:Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe gptkb:Leo_Tolstoy gptkb:Marcel_Proust gptkb:Miguel_de_Cervantes gptkb:Virgil gptkb:Virginia_Woolf gptkb:Walt_Whitman gptkb:William_Shakespeare gptkb:religion gptkb:Dante's_Divine_Comedy gptkb:Shakespeare's_King_Lear gptkb:Homer's_Iliad gptkb:Homer's_Odyssey gptkb:Virgil's_Aeneid gptkb:Cervantes'_Don_Quixote gptkb:Joyce's_Ulysses gptkb:Proust's_In_Search_of_Lost_Time gptkb:Shakespeare's_Hamlet gptkb:Tolstoy's_War_and_Peace gptkb:Whitman's_Leaves_of_Grass gptkb:Woolf's_Mrs_Dalloway gptkb:Shakespeare's_Macbeth gptkb:Goethe's_Faust gptkb:Kafka's_The_Trial Dickens' Great Expectations Dickinson's poetry Greek tragedies Roman epics works of ancient Greece works of ancient Rome works of the 19th century works of the 20th century works of the Enlightenment works of the Middle Ages works of the Renaissance
gptkbp:influenced	education literary studies cultural studies
gptkbp:popularizedBy	gptkb:Harold_Bloom
gptkbp:refersTo	body of high culture literature, music, philosophy, and art
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Great_Books_movement gptkb:Great_Books_of_the_Western_World gptkb:The_Great_Ideas:_A_Syntopicon_of_Great_Books_of_the_Western_World gptkb:Great_Books_college
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6