West, as well as globally, in major artistic works of the cultures of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, including the former colonies of European nations. Expansion and changes to the canon have been criticized, for example from the School of Resentment, which argues that some proposed changes promote political and social activism at the expense of aesthetic values. Broadly, schools of resentment approaches associate such changes with Marxist critical theory, including African-American studies, Marxist literary criticism, New Historicist criticism, feminist criticism and post-structuralism—specifically as promoted by Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. A different criticism comes for narrow interpretation of the concept of the West. This criticism argues that the Western canon is dominated by British and American culture, with a small dose of ancient western classics and a few non-English works, primarily from other Western European countries (like Germany or France), and almost no works from other regions such as Eastern Europe. See also References Further reading Kolbas, E. Dean (2001). Critical Theory and the Literary Canon'', Boulder: Westview Press. External links "Great Books Lists: Lists of Classics, Eastern and Western": this has numerous lists, including Harold Bloom's Compton, "Infinite Canons: A Few Axioms and Questions, and in Addition, a Proposed Definition. A response to Harold Bloom" John Searle, "The Storm Over the University," The New York Review of Books, December 6, 1990 Literature Western culture Philosophy of education