Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages Set, 21-Volumes
Title | Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages Set, 21-Volumes PDF eBook |
Author | Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom |
Publisher | Chelsea House |
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Release | 2010-06-01 |
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ISBN | 9780791099254 |
Each volume in the Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages set contains the finest criticism on a particular work from the Bard's oeuvre, selected under the guidance of renowned Shakespearean scholar, Harold Bloom. Intended for students just beginning their exploration of Shakespeare, these invaluable study guides present the best of Shakespeare criticism, from the 17th century to today. In the process, each volume also charts the flow over time of critical discussion of a particular work.
This essential set is unique not only in the range of commentary it provides on each of Shakespeare's greatest works, but also in its emphasis on the greatest critics in our literary tradition—including such critics as John Dryden in the 17th century, Samuel Johnson in the 18th century, William Hazlitt and Samuel Coleridge in the 19th century, A.C. Bradley and William Empson in the 20th century, and many more. Some of the pieces included are full-length essays; others are excerpts designed to present a key point.
Each title features:
- A selection of the best criticism on the work through the centuries
- Introductory essays on the development of criticism on the work in each century
- A brief biography of Shakespeare
- A plot synopsis, list of characters, and analysis of several key passages
- An introduction by Harold Bloom.
Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages
Title | Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Bloom |
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Release | 19?? |
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The Anatomy of Influence
Title | The Anatomy of Influence PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Bloom |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2011-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0300167601 |
In this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.
Shakespeare
Title | Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Bloom |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 774 |
Release | 2008-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0007292848 |
Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of 'The Western Canon', has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare's genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays.
The Bright Book of Life
Title | The Bright Book of Life PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Bloom |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 545 |
Release | 2021-12-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1984898434 |
America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man—in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction. In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original and controversial literary critic—gives us his only book devoted entirely to the art of the novel. With his hallmark percipience, remarkable scholarship, and extraordinary devotion to sublimity, Bloom offers meditations on forty-eight essential works spanning the Western canon, from Don Quixote to Book of Numbers; from Wuthering Heights to Absalom, Absalom!; from Les Misérables to Blood Meridian; from Vanity Fair to Invisible Man. Here are trenchant appreciations of fiction by, among many others, Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Le Guin, and Sebald. Whether you have already read these books, plan to, or simply care about the importance and power of fiction, Harold Bloom is your unparalleled guide to understanding literature with new intimacy.
Shakespeare and Modern Culture
Title | Shakespeare and Modern Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Marjorie Garber |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2009-12-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0307390969 |
From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars comes a magisterial new study whose premise is "that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare." Shakespeare has determined many of the ideas that we think of as "naturally" true: ideas about human character, individuality and selfhood, government, leadership, love and jealousy, men and women, youth and age. Marjorie Garber delves into ten plays to explore the interrelationships between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, from James Joyce's Ulysses to George W. Bush's reading list. From the persistence of difference in Othello to the matter of character in Hamlet to the untimeliness of youth in Romeo and Juliet, Garber discusses how these ideas have been re-imagined in modern fiction, theater, film, and the news, and in the literature of psychology, sociology, political theory, business, medicine, and law. Shakespeare and Modern Culture is a brilliant recasting of our own mental and emotional landscape as refracted through the prism of the protean Shakespeare.
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages
Title | Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Bloom |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 2001-10-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0684868733 |
The nation's most celebrated literary critic introduces children to the exciting world of literature through this collection of great stories by Hans Christian Andersen, William Blake, O. Henry, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and others. 100,000 first printing.