Books like The Western canon
The Western canon by Harold Bloom reads as academic, provocative. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Bloom's Notes
Harold Bloom · 1996
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78% genome match
Europäische Literatur und lateinisches Mittelalter
Ernst Robert Curtius · 1948
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69% genome match
Real presences
George Steiner · 1986
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69% genome match
Spiritus mundi
Northrop Frye · 1976
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69% genome match
Lectures on Russian Literature
Vladimir Nabokov · 1981
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69% genome match
History Of Beauty
Umberto Eco · 2004
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69% genome match
Reason and beauty in the poetic mind
Charles Williams · 1933
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71% genome match
Mimesis
Erich Auerbach · 1946
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83% genome match
The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry
Walter Pater · 1873
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69% genome match
Eroticism
Georges Bataille · 1957
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69% genome match
Sexual Personae
Camille Paglia · 1990
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69% genome match
Visions and revisions
Dale Peck · 2015
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69% genome match
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