Harold Bloom
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
"Harold Bloom, regarded by some as the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, presents an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of King Lear--the third in his series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities, hailed as Bloom's "last love letter to the shaping spirit of his imagination" on the front page of The New York Times Book Review. King Lear is perhaps the most poignant character in literature. The...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A literary critic presents a character study of the historical Jesus and Yahweh, citing logical flaws through the gospels while arguing that the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament reflect differing political and religious purposes.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Examines the King James translation of the Bible, comparing it with other translations and noting its superiority over previous editions, and highlights the influences of the King James Bible in literature from the Romantic era to today.
Author
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Harold Bloom is our greatest living student of literature, "a colossus among critics" (The New York Times) and a "master entertainer" (Newsweek). Over the course of a remarkable career spanning more than half a century, in such best-selling books as The Western Canon and Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, he transformed the way we look at the masterworks of western literature. Now, in the first collection devoted to his illuminating writings...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction, America's most original and controversial literary critic and legendary Yale professor writes trenchantly about fifty-two masterworks spanning the Western tradition"--
Bloom offers meditations on forty-eight essential works of fiction that span the Western canon. While considering each novels' strengths and shortcomings, he also explains where and why he differs with other critics' assessments....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood"--
Author
Language
English
Description
One of the greatest works of American literature, The Red Badge of Courage gazes fearlessly into the bright hell of war through the eyes of one young soldier, the reluctant Henry Fleming. Written by Stephen Crane at the age of twenty-one, the novel imagines the Civil War's terror and loss with an unblinking vision so modern and revolutionary that, upon publication, critics hailed it as a work of literary genius. Ernest Hemingway declared, "There was...
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