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  | | Shakespeare and Me by Susannah Carson, Prof. Harold Bloom, Howard Hughes Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2016 by Oneworld Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-78074-847-4, ISBN: 1-78074-847-7 "Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Shakespeare and Me, Susannah Carson invites 38 actors, directors, scholars and writers to share stories of their own personal relationship with Shakespeare. We hear from Ralph Fiennes on interpreting Coriolanus for a modern filmic audience, James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic hero, Sir Ben Kingsley on communicating Shakespeare's ideas th ..." |
 | | Hamlet by Prof. Harold Bloom Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2003 by Canongate Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84195-461-5, ISBN: 1-84195-461-6 "In the bestselling Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Harold Bloom showed us how Shakespeare shaped human consciousness, and addressed the question of authorship in Hamlet. In Hamlet: Poem Unlimited, America's most celebrated critic turns his attention to a reading of the play itself and to Shakespeare's most enigmatic and memorable character. This is Bloom's attempt to uncover the mystery of both Prince Hamlet and the play, how ..." |
 | | Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (Bloom's Guides (Hardcover)) by Harold Bloom, Zora Neale Hurston, Prof. Harold Bloom Hardcover, 109 Pages, Published 2009 by Blooms Literary Criticism ISBN-13: 978-1-60413-571-8, ISBN: 1-60413-571-9 "Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" is one of the rediscovered masterpieces of the American canon. The novel depicts a woman's struggle for personal awareness and self-empowerment and has inspired many of the African-American women writers who have followed in Hurston's footsteps. This study guide to the novel features short excerpts of critical essays, an annotated bibliography, an index, and an introductory essay by re ..." |
 | | Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (Bloom's Guides (Hardcover)) by Harold Bloom, Prof. Harold Bloom Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2008 by Blooms Literary Criticism ISBN-13: 978-0-7910-9831-8, ISBN: 0-7910-9831-1 "Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights", set among the rugged beauty of the English moors, is the tragic and passionate story of Catherine and Heathcliff, two lovers drawn together from the moment they meet. Their love is consuming and destructive, forbidden and inescapable, making Bronte's tale an enduring classic of English literature. This new Bloom's Guides volume offers clear analysis perfect for students seeking valuable insight into t ..." |
 | | Richard Wright's Native Son (Bloom's Guides (Hardcover)) by Harold Bloom, Prof. Harold Bloom Library, 130 Pages, Published 2007 by Chelsea House Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-7910-9368-9, ISBN: 0-7910-9368-9 "Bigger Thomas is doomed, trapped in a downward spiral that will lead to arrest, prison, or death, driven by despair, frustration, poverty, and incomprehension. As a young black man in the Chicago of the '30s, he has no way out of the walls of poverty and racism that surround him, and after he murders a young white woman in a moment of panic, these walls begin to close in. There is no help for him--not from his hapless family; not from l ..." |
 | | The American Canon Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon by Prof. Harold Bloom, David Mikics Hardcover, 435 Pages, Published 2019 by Library Of America ISBN-13: 978-1-59853-640-9, ISBN: 1-59853-640-0 "Our foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O'Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth.No critic has better understood the ways writers influence one another—how literary traditions are made—and no writer has helped readers understand this better, than Harold Bloom. Over the course of a remarkable sixty-year career, in such bestselling books as The West ..." |
 | | The Daemon Knows Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Prof. Harold Bloom, Ed Bloom Harold Hardcover, 544 Pages, Published 2015 by Spiegel & Grau Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-9782-8, ISBN: 0-8129-9782-4 "NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHailed as “the indispensable critic” by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom—New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University—has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. Now he turns at long last to his beloved writers of our national literature in an expansive and mesmeriz ..." |
 | | The Daemon Knows Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Prof. Harold Bloom Hardcover, 528 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-875359-9, ISBN: 0-19-875359-4 "NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWSHailed as “the indispensable critic” by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom—New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University—has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. Now he turns at long ..." |
 | | The Anatomy of Influence(Reprint) Literature as a Way of Life by Ed Bloom Harold, Prof. Harold Bloom Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2012 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-18144-9, ISBN: 0-300-18144-2 "Our most revered critic returns to his signature theme "Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it," writes Harold Bloom in The Anatomy of Influence, "is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate."For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of the written word with students and readers. In this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads us through the ..." |
 | | The Best Poems of the English Language(Reprint) From Chaucer Through Robert Frost by Prof. Harold Bloom, Editor Harold Bloom, Robert Powell, Harold Bloom Paperback, 1,008 Pages, Published 2007 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-054042-5, ISBN: 0-06-054042-7 "“To read Bloom’s insights here is to bask in the emanation of genius. As entertaining and erudite as his choices of the works he most loves are, the book’s overriding strength is the guidance it gives, in context and comprehension.” –Baltimore Sun This comprehensive anthology offers renowned critic Harold Bloom’s choice of the best of six centuries of great British and American poetry, selected in accordance with his three absolute crit ..." |
 | | John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath (Bloom's Guides (Hardcover)) by Ed Bloom Harold, John Steinbeck, Prof. Harold Bloom Hardcover, 100 Pages, Published 2005 by Chelsea House Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-7910-8239-3, ISBN: 0-7910-8239-3 "Harold Bloom writes, "The Grapes of Wrath is a flawed but permanent American book." John Steinbeck's novel, still popular a half-century after its original publication, is the focus of this edition of Bloom's Notes. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on his work, this text includes a brief biography of the author, structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited ..." |
 | | Kabbalah and Criticism(Updated) (Continuum Impacts) by Harold Ed Bloom, Prof. Harold Bloom Paperback, 76 Pages, Published 2005 by Continuum ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-1737-4, ISBN: 0-8264-1737-X "While Bloom is appreciated for his originality, range and clarity, less notice has been taken of the remarkable unity that is displayed in his writings from the earlier studies on Shelley, Blake and Romanticism, up to A Map of Misreading. That unity is brilliantly highlighted in Kabbalah and Criticism.Providing a study of the Kabbalah itself, its great commentators, the 'revisionary ratios' they employed and of its significance as a mod ..." |
 | | A Map of Misreading(2nd Edition) With a New Preface by Prof. Harold Bloom, Harold Ed Bloom Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2003 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-516221-9, ISBN: 0-19-516221-8 "In print for twenty-seven years, A Map of Misreading serves as a companion volume to Bloom's other seminal work, The Anxiety of Influence. In this finely crafted text, Bloom offers instruction in how to read a poem, using his theory that patterns of imagery in poems represent both a response to and a defense against the influence of precursor poems. Influence, as Bloom conceives it, means that there are no texts, but only relationships ..." |
 | | Geoffrey Chaucer's the Canterbury Tales (Bloom's Guides (Hardcover)) by Harold Bloom, Prof. Harold Bloom Hardcover, 118 Pages, Published 2008 by Blooms Literary Criticism ISBN-13: 978-0-7910-9792-2, ISBN: 0-7910-9792-7 "This constitutes a definition of terms that strains our belief in the applicability of the theory to Chaucer's tales. Obviously much hangs upon our definition of “well- intentioned.” One has to adopt a rather special perspective to see the agents in this light, that is, as well-intentioned with reference exclusively to their own interests. V.A. KOLVE ON CHAUCER'S FABLIAUX Chaucer warns that what is to follow is a “cherles tale” in w ..." |
 | | Albert Camus's the Stranger (Bloom's Guides (Hardcover)) by Harold Bloom, Lewis Warsh, Blooms Literary Criticism, Prof. Harold Bloom Hardcover, 93 Pages, Published 2008 by Blooms Literary Criticism ISBN-13: 978-0-7910-9829-5, ISBN: 0-7910-9829-X "Albert Camus's landmark existentialist novel traces the aftermath of a shocking crime and the man whose fate is sealed with one rash and foolhardy act. The Stranger presents readers with a new kind of protagonist, a man unable to transcend the tedium and inherent absurdity of everyday existence in a world indifferent to the struggles and strivings of its human denizens. Complete with an introduction from master literary scholar Harold B ..." |
 | | Macbeth(1st Edition) (Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages) by Janyce Marson, Harold Bloom, Prof. Harold Bloom Paperback, 402 Pages, Published 2008 by Checkmark Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7910-9842-4, ISBN: 0-7910-9842-7 "This is a useful guide to studying Shakespeare's enthralling tragedy. "Macbeth" is Shakespeare's stark tale of a tormented nobleman driven into a murderous plot by his ambition to assume the throne of Scotland. This new study guide to "Macbeth" includes a selection of the finest criticism from the 17th and 18th centuries up to the 21st, providing an essential resource for readers interested in one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. An int ..." |
 | | How to Read and Why(Updated) by Prof. Harold Bloom Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2001 by Fourth Estate Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84115-039-0, ISBN: 1-84115-039-8 "Harold Bloom's urgency in How to Read and Why may have much to do with his age. He brackets his combative, inspiring manual with the news that he is nearing 70 and hasn't time for the mediocre. (One doubts that he ever did.) Nor will he countenance such fashionable notions as the death of the author or abide "the vagaries of our current counter-Puritanism" let alone "ideological cheerleading". Successively exploring the short story, poe ..." |
 | | How To Read and Why(1st Edition) by Prof. Harold Bloom, Benjamin Franklin Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2000 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-0-684-85906-4, ISBN: 0-684-85906-8 "Harold Bloom's urgency in How to Read and Why may have much to do with his age. He brackets his combative, inspiring manual with the news that he is nearing 70 and hasn't time for the mediocre. (One doubts that he ever did.) Nor will he countenance such fashionable notions as the death of the author or abide "the vagaries of our current counter-Puritanism" let alone "ideological cheerleading". Successively exploring the short story, poe ..." |
 | | Shakespeare(1st Edition) The Invention of the Human by Prof. Harold Bloom Hardcover, 768 Pages, Published 1999 by Fourth Estate Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84115-047-5, ISBN: 1-84115-047-9 "Ben Jonson claimed of his great rival Shakespeare that his art was not of an age but for all time. While this timeless approach to Shakespeare has become deeply unfashionable in recent years, riding over the horizon to rescue the Bard from the fiendish clutches of political correctness comes Harold Bloom, fresh from defending and defining The Western Canon back in 1994. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is not simply a passionat ..." |
 | | Shakespeare The Invention of the Human by Ed Bloom Harold, Prof. Harold Bloom Paperback, 768 Pages, Published 1999 by Riverhead Books ISBN-13: 978-1-57322-751-3, ISBN: 1-57322-751-X "Dieser Titel ist in englischer Sprache. "Persönlichkeit in unserem Sinne ist eine Erfindung Shakespeares. Hierin liegt nicht nur seine größte Originalität, sondern auch der eigentliche Grund für seine fortwährende Überzeugungskraft." Das zumindest meint Harold Bloom in seinem unerhört ehrgeizigen Buch Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. Dies ist zwar ein gigantischer Anspruch, aber schließlich handelt es sich ja auch um ein giganti ..." |
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