443 Updating Bloom's Canon (with Bethanne Patrick)
The History of Literature
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Is There a Canon of Children's Literature?
There's no real representative of children's literature on here. Bob dillon, the song writer has kind of made his way into the nowell prize's view of a, the prize committee's view of literature. But i know bloom in particular had this sort of a burr in his saddle about a genre fiction d and some of that. And i mentioned mary shelley, a h g Wells, or tolken, or or margaret atwood, or o arthor werlaguina,. agatha christi, arthur conan doyle, there's plenty of people who would have helped us out.
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