Harold Bloom
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"Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom commences this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse the practice of reading,...
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English
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Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afro-centrism, and the New Historicism.
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The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
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viii, 426 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"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...
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Shakespeare invented characters in a new kind of way. He not only gave them personality and depth, he gave them life. Not a life that went simply from point to point, but one that developed rather than unfolded. In so doing, Shakespeare created characters with whom everyone can identify, whether the characters were kings and queens or fools and merchants. Renowned Shakespearian scholar Professor Harold Bloom presents Shakespeare's seven major tragedies...
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Harold Bloom realiza un acercamiento literario, crítico y ante todo humanista a los personajes que considera más relevantes de Shakespeare. La segunda: Cleopatra.
Cleopatra, una de las mujeres por sí misma más fascinantes de la historia, se convirtió también, gracias a Shakespeare, en uno de los personajes literarios más interesantes. La fusión de la historia y la literatura dieron lugar al mito. Cleopatra se nos presenta como un personaje...
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"Fake News". A pesar de estar tan en boga en nuestros días, Shakespeare ya era consciente de la utilidad de este recurso a la hora de destruir destinos y por ello lo empleó como una de las "estrategias del mal" con las que Yago se vengaría de Otelo, y que lo convertirían en el antagonista más despiadado. No en vano rivaliza en importancia con Ricardo III.
Harold Bloom analiza la figura de un Yago resentido y envidioso, dolido por no obtener...
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Según Harold Bloom, el príncipe Hamlet y el rey Lear son los personajes de Shakespeare que nos plantean el mayor reto: "La tragedia de Hamlet, príncipe de Dinamarca y La tragedia del rey Lear rivalizan entre sí como los dos mayores dramas concebidos hasta ahora por la humanidad. Hamlet y Lear no tienen casi nada en común. El príncipe de Dinamarca lleva a sus límites intelecto y conciencia. El rey Lear de Britania no tiene autoconciencia ni...
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Español
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Harold Bloom realiza un acercamiento literario, crítico y ante todo humanista a los personajes que considera más relevantes de Shakespeare. El primero: Falstaff.
Harold Bloom declaró sentirse especialmente identificado con Falstaff ("cuando era joven y estaba menos cansado, yo fantaseaba con ser Falstaff") y con su forma de amar la vida. No es de extrañar que dedicara, por tanto, el primer libro de esta colección a uno de los personajes tragicómicos...
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The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry This dazzling celebration of the power of poetry to sublimate death—completed days before Harold Bloom died—shows how literature renews life amid what Milton called “a universe of death.” Bloom reads as a way of taking arms against the sea of life’s troubles, taking readers on a grand tour of the poetic voices that have haunted him...
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English
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Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or "J") writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Illiad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by Freud, Kafka, and Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work...
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Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
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xvi, 524 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Harold Bloom ... returns with a definitive yet personal book on twelve American writers upon whose work he believes the American canon is built. While his references to American writers are wide-ranging, he focuses on twelve: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Mark Twain, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, and Hart Crane-- those writers whose works make...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
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xv, 516 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"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"--
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
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First Scribner hardcover edition.
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xi, 160 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"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...