Suggested Reading: Creating the Canon
Cynthia Crossen of the Wall Street Journal discusses the “canon wars”–the debate over whether, and which, modern texts should be added to the works of literature being taught and studied within academia. She also suggests several sources of classic book lists: Clifton Fadiman’s Lifetime Reading Plan, the St. John’s College Reading List, the appendices to Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon, and Jane Smiley’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Novel.
