In the creation of character, Bloom maintains, Shakespeare has no true precursor and has left no one after him untouched. Shakespeare has become the touchstone for all writers who come before and after him, whether playwrights, poets, or storytellers. Insisting instead upon "the autonomy of aesthetic," Bloom places Shakespeare at the center of the Western Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New Historicism. Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon.
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