Figures of Capable Imagination
Title | Figures of Capable Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Bloom |
Publisher | |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780816492770 |
The Anatomy of Bloom
Title | The Anatomy of Bloom PDF eBook |
Author | Alistair Heys |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2014-07-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1441120777 |
Here at last is a comprehensive introduction to the career of America's leading intellectual. The Anatomy of Bloom surveys Harold Bloom's life as a literary critic, exploring all of his books in chronological order, to reveal that his work, and especially his classic The Anxiety of Influence, is best understood as an expression of reprobate American Protestantism and yet haunted by a Jewish fascination with the Holocaust. Heys traces Bloom's intellectual development from his formative years spent as a poor second-generation immigrant in the Bronx to his later eminence as an international literary phenomenon. He argues that, as the quintessential living embodiment of the American dream, Bloom's career-path deconstructs the very foundations of American Protestantism.
An American Idol
Title | An American Idol PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Loewenberg |
Publisher | University Press of America |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780819139566 |
A collection of revised essays which appeared previously in various journals. Presents the thesis that "Jewhatred" is a philosophic question, founded in idolatry. Modern academic scholarship is historicist rather than philosophic, and "is therefore unprepared to consider the possibility that the hatred of Judaism may be a form of idol worship". Contends that American liberalism is grounded in the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson on freedom and that Emerson was an antisemite who understood that Judaism was an obstacle to unbridled freedom. also discusses Hitler's ideas in terms of his aspirations toward absolute freedom (which leads ultimately to self-annihilation), and Nazism as the ultimate form of idolatry, and their antisemitism stemming from Judaism's opposition to these goals.
American and British Poetry
Title | American and British Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Harriet Semmes Alexander |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780719017063 |
Introspection and Contemporary Poetry
Title | Introspection and Contemporary Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Bacher Williamson |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780674462762 |
In this bold defense of so-called confessional poetry, Alan Williamson shows us that much of the best writing of the past twenty-five years is about the sense of being or having a self, a knowable personal identity. The difficulties posed by this subject help explain the fertility of contemporary poetic experiment--from the jaggedness of the later work of Robert Lowell to the montage--like methods of John Ashbery, from the visual surrealism of James Wright and W. S. Merwin to the radical plainness of Frank Bidart. Williamson examines these and other poets from a psychological perspective, giving an especially striking reading of Sylvia Plath.
The Arnoldian
Title | The Arnoldian PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Emerson and the Art of the Diary
Title | Emerson and the Art of the Diary PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Alan Rosenwald |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0195053338 |
An extended literary description and analysis of Emerson's journals, which argues that these works constitute one of the greatest commentaries on 19th century America, realizing Emerson's standards of literary excellence more fully than his other writings.