| 278 American literary works of the 20th century | Bei Amazon nachschauen | |
| The following list appeared in the
September 1994 issue of Esquire magazine (Volume 122, No. 3, pp.
118-121), with the following acknowledgement: Excerpted from The Western Canon by Harald Bloom. Copyright 1994 by Harold Bloom. Published by arrangement with Harcourt, Brace & Company. It represents, in Bloom's words, "a modest prophecy as to survival possibilities," a prediction as to what will prove to be the lasting American literary works of the 20th century (278 books). It was posted it to rec.arts.books a while back, where it was—needless to say—the object of some discussion. |
Harold
Bloom. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. Riverhead Books 1995. Taschenbuch - 546 Seiten |
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| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
| Walter Abish | Alphabetical Africa | |
| How German Is It | ||
| I Am the Dust Under Your Feet | ||
| Eclipse Fever | ||
| Leonie Adams | Poems: A Selection | |
| James Agee | Permit Me Voyage | |
| Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (with Walker Evans) | ||
| Conrad Aiken | Collected Poems | |
| A. R. Ammons | Collected Poems | |
| Selected Longer Poems | ||
| Sphere: The Form of a Motion | ||
| Sherwood Anderson | Winesburg, Ohio | |
| Death in the Woods and Other Stories | ||
| James Applewhite | River Writing: An Eno Journal | |
| John Ashbery | Selected Poems | |
| Flow Chart | ||
| And the Stars Were Shining | ||
| Houseboat Days | ||
| The Double Dream of Spring | ||
| Hotel Lautreamont | ||
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| James Baldwin | The Price of the Ticket | |
| John Barth | The Floating Opera | |
| The End of the Road | ||
| The Sot-Weed Factor | ||
| Donald Barthelme | Forty Stories | |
| The Dead Father | ||
| Saul Bellow | Seize the Day | |
| The Adventures of Augie March | ||
| Herzog | ||
| John Berryman | Collected Poems | |
| Elizabeth Bishop | Collected Poems | |
| Louise Bogan | The Blue Estuaries: Selected Poems | |
| Edgar Bowers | Living Together: New and Selected Poems | |
| Paul Bowles | The Sheltering Sky | |
| Kay Boyle | Three Short Novels | |
| Harold Brodkey | Stories in an Almost Classical Mode | |
| Kenneth Burke | Counter-statement | |
| A Rhetoric of Motives | ||
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| Abraham Cahan | The Rise of David Levinsky | |
| Truman Capote | In Cold Blood | |
| Raymond Carver | Where I'm Calling From | |
| Willa Cather | My Antonia | |
| The Professor's House | ||
| A Lost Lady | ||
| John Cheever | Bullet Park | |
| (The Stories of) | ||
| Amy Clampitt | Westward | |
| Robert Coover | Spanking the Maid | |
| Alfred Corn | A Call in the Midst of the Crowd | |
| Hart Crane | Complete Poems, Selected Letters and Prose | |
| Douglas Crase | The Revisionist | |
| John Crowley | Little, Big | |
| Aegypt | ||
| Love and Sleep | ||
| e. e. cummings | Complete Poems | |
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| Guy Davenport | Tatlin! | |
| Don DeLillo | Running Dog | |
| White Noise | ||
| Mao II | ||
| Libra | ||
| James Dickey | The Early Motion | |
| The Central Motion | ||
| Thomas M. Disch | On Wings of Song | |
| E. L. Doctorow | World's Fair | |
| The Book of Daniel | ||
| Hilda Doolittle (H. D.) | Selected Poems | |
| John Dos Passos | U.S.A. | |
| Rita Dove | Selected Poems | |
| Theodore Dreiser | Sister Carrie | |
| An American Tragedy | ||
| Robert Duncan | Bending the Bow | |
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| Richard Eberhart | Collected Poems | |
| Stanley Elkin | The Living End | |
| T. S. Eliot | Selected Essays | |
| The Complete Poems and Plays | ||
| Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man | |
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| William Faulkner | As I Lay Dying | |
| Sanctuary | ||
| Light in August | ||
| Absalom, Absalom! | ||
| The Sound and the Fury | ||
| The Wild Palms | ||
| The Collected Stories | ||
| The Hamlet | ||
| Alvin Feinman | Poems | |
| Irving Feldman | Selected Poems | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Babylon Revisited and Other Stories | |
| The Great Gatsby | ||
| Tender Is the Night | ||
| Robert Fitzgerald | Spring Shade: Poems | |
| Robert Frost | The Poetry | |
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| William Gaddis | The Recognitions | |
| Jean Garrigue | Selected Poems | |
| William H. Gass | In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories | |
| Omensetter's Luck | ||
| Ellen Glasgow | Barren Ground | |
| Vein of Iron | ||
| Allen Grossman | The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected | |
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| Donald Hall | The One Day | |
| Old and New Poems | ||
| John Hawkes | Second Skin | |
| The Cannibal | ||
| Robert Hayden | Collected Poems | |
| Anthony Hecht | Collected Earlier Poems | |
| Ernest Hemingway | Complete Short Stories | |
| A Farewell to Arms | ||
| The Sun Also Rises | ||
| The Garden of Eden | ||
| Edward Hirsch | Earthly Measures | |
| Russell Hoban | Riddley Walker | |
| John Hollander | Reflections on Espionage | |
| Selected Poetry | ||
| Tesserae | ||
| Richard Howard | Untitled Subjects | |
| Findings | ||
| Langston Hughes | Selected Poems | |
| The Big Sea | ||
| I Wonder as I Wander | ||
| Zora Neal Hurston | Their Eyes Were Watching God | |
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| Randall Jarrell | Complete Poems | |
| Robinson Jeffers | Selected Poems | |
| Denis Johnson | Angels | |
| Jesus' Son | ||
| Fiskadoro | ||
| Donald Justice | Selected Poems | |
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| Weldon Kees | Collected Poems | |
| William Kennedy | Ironweed | |
| The Albany Cycle | ||
| Galway Kinnell | Selected Poems | |
| Kenneth Koch | Seasons on Earth | |
| Tony Kushner | Angels in America | |
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| Ursula K. LeGuin | The Left Hand of Darkness | |
| Philip Levine | Selected Poems | |
| Sinclair Lewis | Babbitt | |
| It Can't Happen here | ||
| Vachel Lindsay | Collected Poems | |
| Robert Lowell | Collected Poems | |
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| Norman Mailer | Advertisements for Myself | |
| Ancient Evenings | ||
| The Executioner's Song | ||
| Bernard Malamud | The Fixer | |
| (The Stories of) | ||
| David Mamet | American Buffalo | |
| Speed-the-Plow | ||
| John P. Marquand | H. M. Pulham, Esquire | |
| Edgar Lee Masters | Spoon River Anthology | |
| Edwin Justus Mayer | Children of Darkness | |
| Cormac McCarthy | Blood Meridian | |
| Suttree | ||
| Child of God | ||
| J. D. McClatchy | The Rest of the Way | |
| James McCourt | Time Remaining | |
| Carson McCullers | The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | |
| The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | ||
| James Merrill | From the First Nine | |
| The Changing Light at Sandover | ||
| W. S. Merwin | Selected Poems | |
| Arthur Miller | Death of a Salesman | |
| Joseph Mitchell | Up In the Old Hotel | |
| Marianne Moore | Complete Poems | |
| Wright Morris | Ceremony in Lone Tree | |
| Toni Morrison | Song of Solomon | |
| Howard Moss | New Selected Poems | |
| Thylia Moss | Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems | |
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| Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | |
| Pale Fire | ||
| Gloria Naylor | The Women of Brewster Place | |
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| Joyce Carol Oates | Them | |
| Flannery O'Connor | Complete Stories | |
| Wise Blood | ||
| The Violent Bear It Away | ||
| Frank O'Hara | Selected Poems | |
| John O'Hara | Collected Stories | |
| Appointment in Samarra | ||
| Charles Olson | The Maximus Poems | |
| Collected Poems | ||
| Eugene O'Neill | Lazarus Laughed | |
| The Iceman Cometh | ||
| Long Day's Journey into Night | ||
| Cynthia Ozick | Envy, or Yiddish in America | |
| Cynthia Ozick | ||
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| Grace Paley | The Little Disturbances of Man | |
| Walker Percy | The Moviegoer | |
| Katherine Anne Porter | Collected Stories | |
| Ezra Pound | The Cantos | |
| Literary Essays | ||
| Personae | ||
| Thomas Pynchon | V | |
| The Crying of Lot 49 | ||
| Gravity's Rainbow | ||
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| David Rabe | Streamers | |
| John Crowe Ransom | Selected Poems | |
| Ishmael Reed | Mumbo Jumbo | |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson | Selected Poems | |
| Theodore Roethke | Collected Poems | |
| Straw for the Fire | ||
| Henry Roth | Call It Sleep | |
| Philip Roth | Operation Shylock | |
| Portnoy's Complaint | ||
| My Life as a Man | ||
| Zuckerman Bound | ||
| The Counterlife | ||
| Patrimony | ||
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| J. D. Salinger | Nine Stories | |
| The Catcher in the Rye | ||
| James Salter | Solo Faces | |
| Light Years | ||
| James Schuyler | Collected Poems | |
| Delmore Schwartz | Selected Poems: Summer / Knowledge | |
| Sam Shepard | Seven Plays | |
| Charles Simic | Selected Poems | |
| Gary Snyder | No Nature: New and Selected Poems | |
| Gertrude Stein | Three Lives | |
| The Geographical History of America | ||
| The Making of Americans | ||
| Tender Buttons | ||
| John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath | |
| Wallace Stevens | Collected Poems | |
| The Necessary Angel | ||
| Opus Posthumous | ||
| The Palm at the End of the Mind | ||
| Robert Stone | Dog Soldiers | |
| A Flag for Sunrise | ||
| Mark Strand | Selected Poems | |
| The Continuous Life | ||
| Dark Harbor | ||
| William Styron | The Long March | |
| May Swenson | New & Selected Things Taking Place | |
| In Other Words | ||
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| Allen Tate | Collected Poems | |
| Paul Theroux | The Mosquito Coast | |
| M. B. Tolson | Harlem Gallery | |
| Jean Toomer | Cane | |
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| John Updike | The Witches of Eastwick | |
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| Gore Vidal | Myra Breckinridge | |
| Lincoln | ||
| Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Cat's Cradle | |
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| Robert Penn Warren | All the King's Men | |
| World Enough and Time | ||
| Selected Poems | ||
| Eudora Welty | Collected Stories | |
| Delta Wedding | ||
| The Robber Bridegroom | ||
| The Ponder Heart | ||
| Nathanael West | A Cool Million | |
| The Day of the Locust | ||
| Miss Lonelyhearts | ||
| Edith Wharton | The Age of Innocence | |
| Ethan Fromme | ||
| The House of Mirth | ||
| The Custom of the Country | ||
| The Collected Short Stories | ||
| John B. Wheelright | Collected Poems | |
| Edmund White | Forgetting Elena | |
| Nocturnes for the King of Naples | ||
| Richard Wilbur | New and Collected Poems | |
| James Wilcox | Modern Baptists | |
| Thornton Wilder | Three Plays | |
| Tennessee Williams | The Glass Menagerie | |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | ||
| Summer and Smoke | ||
| William Carlos Williams | Spring and All | |
| Paterson | ||
| Collected Poems | ||
| August Wilson | Fences | |
| Joe Turner's Come and Gone | ||
| Edmund Wilson | The Shores of Light | |
| Patriotic Gore | ||
| Charles Wright | The World of the Ten Thousand Things | |
| James Wright | Above the River: The Complete Poems | |
| Jay Wright | Dimensions of History | |
| The Double Invention of Komo | ||
| Selected Poems | ||
| Elaine's Book | ||
| Boleros | ||
| Richard Wright | Native Son | |
| Black Boy | ||
| Elinor Wylie | Last Poems |
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