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443 Updating Bloom's Canon (with Bethanne Patrick)

The History of Literature

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Tony Morrison's Beloved

There's a certain sense of, i don't know, authority and a groundedness in morrison's work that will make any reader feel like they're in the hands of a master. And no, he was writing with some recency. He his book came out in 19 94, and she had won the nobell prize in 19 93. Beloved had been published, was published in 19 87,. so he had time to consider it. But he included her in his appendix where he listed, kind of, all the other honourable mentions, but he didn't list belove it. He listed only song of solomon. She, it's a total no brainer that this

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