Talk:Western canon
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[edit] Dead Link
This link to Harold Blooms canon list seems to be dead,
http://www.literarycritic.com/bloom.htm
[edit] Mona Lisa
Could someone explain why the mona lisa is even in the page at all? It isn't referenced in the text.
[edit] Number of books in GBotWW
It said 54 volumes under the caption on the picture. I changed it to 61 because the set pictured is the second edition, which has 60 numbered volumes, and an unnumbered one called "The Great Conversation" (which is one of the numbered volumes in the first edition).
[edit] Singularity
"Dead white males" (the new expression) wrote books because they were the educated people. A negro couldn't be expected to write books. A slave could be whipped for learning the alphabet. Why would anyone "attack?" I am perplexed. GhostofSuperslum 11:56, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
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- You are perplexed because you think that there is a logical reason for the attack. Instead, look for emotion, passion, and will as causes.This will terminate your perplexity.72.73.205.104 03:09, 8 January 2007 (UTC)Benighted
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[edit] more on the debate
i found links that talk some more about the sides of the controversy. http://www.goacom.org/overseas-digest/Discourse/literarycanon.htm http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/107629/ethnic_writers_and_the_western_literary.html
