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Western canonWestern canon is a term used to describe a canon of books and art, and specifically a set with very fuzzy boundaries of books and other art that, in general, have been most influential in shaping Western culture. The selection of a canon is important in educational perennialism.The process of listmaking -- defining the boundaries of the canon -- is endless. One of the notable attempts in the English-speaking world was the Great Books of the Western World program that grew out of the curriculum at the University of Chicago developed in the middle third of the 20th century. University president Robert Hutchins and his collaborator Mortimer Adler developed a program that offered reading lists, books, and organizational strategies for reading clubs to the general public. Starting in the 1960s, but growing considerably in the 1980s, classic books were attacked by various groups as being from "dead, white, Western men" and not representing the viewpoints of other people (i.e., most people in the world). These groups advocated inclusion/study of all literature, sometimes to the exclusion of literature ordinarily placed in the traditional Western canon; this practice has been called "rewriting the canon." This trend continues strong in most universities, but has waned somewhat in its influence in recent years. Authors such as Yale Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom have spoken strongly in favor of the canon, and in general the canon remains as a represented idea in most institutions, though its implications continue to be debated heavily. Works which are commonly included in the canon:
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The conspicuous absence of works not generally considered mainstream literature should be noted here (e.g. crime fiction, science fiction), in addition to recently published works.
Authors whose works which are commonly included in the canon: Please keep this list unless the list of works becomes sufficient to render it superfluous.) (Also for authors whose entire corpus has been influential.)
(or move to book list once satisfied the appropriate works have been entered
Works which directly address the canon (pro or con):
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particularly to Melastoma; if you have not, perhaps Hooker or Oliver may
guide future experiments.
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stamened forms the pistil is rectangularly bent or is straight?
Down, February 16th [1862?].
I have been trying a few experiments on Melastomads; and they seem to
petal-facers and the sepal-facers) have very different powers; and it does
the one set. Now I think I can understand the structure of the flower.html">flower.html">flower.html">flower.html">flower.html">flower and
rectangularly out of the flower, and the other with it nearly straight.
Our hot-house and green-house plants.html">plants.html">plants have probably all descended by
from them. I applied in vain to Bentham and Hooker; but Oliver picked out
position of the pistil.
I see that Rhexia grows in Massachusetts; and I suppose has two different
the pistil in different plants, in lately opened flowers.html">flowers of the same age?
the pistils and stamens, as flower gets old). Supposing that my prophecy
into the flower is not [on] the upper side.html">side of the pistil, owing to the
side of the flower. Also I should like to know the colour of the two sets
see that I can find out whether these plants are dimorphic in this peculiar
Saintpaulia the flowers are dimorphic in this sense: the style projects to
that a right-handed flower would fertilise a left-handed one, and vice
73.) and in its relation to the two kinds of pollen. I am anxious about
longer and shorter or otherwise different anthers will have to be examined
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