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Autore: Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Facts On File, Incorporated Data di pubblicazione: 2011 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0791099903 - 13: 9780791099902
The Bloom's Modern Critical Views series provides the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights--from the ancients to contemporary writers. Each volume opens with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom in which he offers his [...]
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Autore: Professor Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Facts On File, Incorporated Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0791099202 - 13: 9780791099209
Bloom's Classic Critical Views offers a selection of the finest classic criticism on the authors most commonly read in high school and college classes today. Whereas the popular Bloom's Modern Critical Views series provides the best contemporary criti [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Facts On File, Incorporated Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0791099148 - 13: 9780791099148
Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations presents a selection of the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels, and dramas of the Western world, from timeless classics like "Oedipus Rex" and "The Iliad" to such modern and co [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 201 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438119275 - 13: 9781438119274
Carson McCullers was a diverse and multitalented writer who produced two plays and numerous short stories, essays, and poems. But it is her fiction, including The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, tha [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Yale University Press Data di pubblicazione: 2011 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 357 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0300167601 - 13: 9780300167603
"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 kn [...]
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Autore: Jesse Zuba Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2004 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 247 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438115563 - 13: 9781438115566
The city that never sleeps has played host to numerous modern classics. Arguably the heart of the American book business, New York has always been a hot spot for writers and literati. This book takes you on a tour of the city, examining it as it has appe [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Seabury Press Data di pubblicazione: 1976 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 273 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0816492778 - 13: 9780816492770
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Autore: Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Riverhead Books Data di pubblicazione: 2004 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 284 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1573222844 - 13: 9781573222846
Emulating one of his favorite critics, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Bloom returns once more to sift through the Western canon, this time to discern and describe those writers whose brand of wisdom he holds in highest esteem. Beginning with Job and Ecclesiastes, a [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Chelsea House Data di pubblicazione: 1987 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 136 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0877547440 - 13: 9780877547440
-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature -- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism -- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chrono [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Data di pubblicazione: 2017 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 66 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1975966813 - 13: 9781975966812
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book by Harold Bloom on Western literature, in which Bloom defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon. The Western Canon is Bloom's [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Chelsea House Data di pubblicazione: 1988 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 182 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0877549214 - 13: 9780877549215
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Autore: Harold Bloom Blake Hobby Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2010 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 292 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438131054 - 13: 9781438131054
From a Polynesian word meaning 'prohibition', a taboo is a social more that should not be broken by society's participants, for doing so can mean punishment. This book discusses the role of the taboo in Howl, Lolita, Lord of the Flies, The Miller's Tale, [...]
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Autore: Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom Donna Dailey John Tomedi Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2005 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 257 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438115555 - 13: 9781438115559
Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Dickens are just a few of the London authors that have come to represent the essences of English literature. Taking you on a tour of the city with strong literary roots, the book examines it as it has appeared as a setting in va [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom Blake Hobby Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2010 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 305 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1604134410 - 13: 9781604134414
Brings forward the theme of enslavement and emancipation in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and many other notable works. Featuring original essays and excerpts from critical [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Turtleback Data di pubblicazione: 1995 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0613829026 - 13: 9780613829021
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Autore: Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Tandem Library Data di pubblicazione: 2004 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1417639261 - 13: 9781417639267
- Each volume's introduction presents Bloom's general overview of the genre and his thoughts on its development
- Each volume's bibliographic information is genre specific and directs the reader to additional resources for further study
- All essay [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2010 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 253 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438134371 - 13: 9781438134376
Aldous Huxley has been called the 20th century's answer to the Renaissance thinker. He gained fame for his utopian and dystopian fiction, including Brave New World, Point Counter Point, Crome Yellow, and Ape and Essence. With an introductory essay from Y [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 199 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438129378 - 13: 9781438129372
Anton Chekhov was one of the most important short story writers and dramatists of all time. Ranked among the giants of Russian literature during his lifetime, this playwright's legacy includes The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Seagul [...]
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Autore: Walt Whitman Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Library of America Data di pubblicazione: 2003 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 221 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1931082324 - 13: 9781931082327
American literature and culture are inconceivable without the towering presence of Walt Whitman. Expansive, ecstatic, original in ways that continue to startle and to elicit new discoveries, Whitman's poetry is a testament to the surging energies of 19th [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Chelsea House Publishers Data di pubblicazione: 1987 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 135 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 087754736X - 13: 9780877547365
-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature -- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism -- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chrono [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Chelsea House Data di pubblicazione: 1987 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 140 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1555460178 - 13: 9781555460174
A collection of eight critical essays on Conrad's novel, arranged in chronological order of publication.
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Autore: Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Chelsea House Publishers Data di pubblicazione: 1987 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 147 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1555460305 - 13: 9781555460303
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Autore: Harold Bloom (Editor), George Orwell | Casa editrice: Chelsea House Publications Data di pubblicazione: 1996 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 64 | Formato: | ISBN-10: 0791040771 - 13: 9780791040775
Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 172 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 143811334X - 13: 9781438113340
-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights. -- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 292 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438112912 - 13: 9781438112916
Leader of the 19th century naturalist movement in France, Zola's major works include Germinal and Nana, both part of the Rougon-Macquert Cycle.
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Autore: Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 263 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 143811317X - 13: 9781438113173
J.D. Salinger's powerful fiction and enigmatic persona have captivated readers for more than 50 years. His works include Nine Stories; Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; and Franny and Zooey, but Salinger's literary reputation rests on his coming-of-a [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2008 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 294 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438113056 - 13: 9781438113050
Suggests that Melville's rejection of biblical theology finds powerful expression throughout all of his later fictional prose and his verse. This title gathers together some of the criticism on the works of Melville, including "Moby-Dick", "Typee", "Omoo [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 247 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 143811298X - 13: 9781438112985
Editor Harold Bloom cites the literary origins of Gabriel García Márquez as "Faulkner, crossed by Kafka." A Colombian writer and Nobel Prize winner, Márquez is best known for his novels One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in th
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Autore: Harold Bloom Daniel Cook | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 207 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1604134348 - 13: 9781604134346
Best known as the author of ""Gulliver's Travels"", Jonathan Swift is one of literature's great satirists. Born and educated in Ireland, Swift became a politician and clergyman in England, where he wrote essays, pamphlets, poems, and fiction that address [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 215 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438113420 - 13: 9781438113425
Richard Wright found a variety of sources of inspiration for his novels. Marxist, existentialist, Freudian, and Black Nationalist leanings can be found in his enduring and much-studied works, including Black Boy, Native Son, and Uncle Tom
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 233 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438112734 - 13: 9781438112732
-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights. -- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 86 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438116365 - 13: 9781438116365
Bloom suggests Miller has an understanding of the American psyche that overcomes his limitations as a writer. Take a closer look at Miller's work, including All My Sons, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible.
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 254 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438113285 - 13: 9781438113289
Tolstoy's quest for truth transcended his roles as a philosopher, soldier, proprietor, and devoted family man. He approached his writing with a conviction that truth can be found and must be embraced. This volume studies Tolstoy extensively, including hi [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 220 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438113498 - 13: 9781438113494
Tennessee Williams is recognized as one of America's greatest dramatists, and as an innovator of post-World War II theater. He looked for a mechanism for portraying the truth in theater at a time when traditional approaches no longer worked. Bold with fo [...]
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Autore: Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 462 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438112505 - 13: 9781438112503
In Shakespeare's powerful drama of destiny and revenge, Hamlet, the troubled prince of Denmark, must overcome his own self-doubt and avenge the murder of his father. Contains a selection of the finest criticism through the centuries on Hamlet, as well as [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Bur Data di pubblicazione: 2013 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 620 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 8858655303 - 13: 9788858655306
Quali sono i testi e gli scrittori su cui la civiltà occidentale ha edificato la sua letteratura? Come conciliare il gusto personale con il bisogno di condividere un patrimonio comune? Da Dante a Shakespeare, da Molière a Goethe, da Cervantes a Tolstoj [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom Alessandra Farkas | Casa editrice: Corriere della Sera Data di pubblicazione: 2015 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 50 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 8861268390 - 13: 9788861268395
«Sono idiosincratico, individualista, non ho colleghi e non faccio parte di alcuna scuola. Sono un’isola, un’università dentro l’università.» Nella sua vita Harold Bloom si è fatto molti nemici, ma un numero assai superiore di ammiratori, molt [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Rizzoli Data di pubblicazione: 2000 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 380 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 8817863653 - 13: 9788817863650
Perché dobbiamo leggere e continuare a leggere l'Amleto di Shakespeare, il Don Chisciotte di Cervantes, Delitto e castigo di Dostoevskij, i racconti di Borges e di Calvino, le poesie di Emily Dickinson? Non per obbligo, né per contribuire, con le nostr [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: OUP Oxford Data di pubblicazione: 2015 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 544 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0191067938 - 13: 9780191067938
Hailed as 'the indispensable critic' by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. In The Daemon Knows, he turns his [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Learning Data di pubblicazione: 2013 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 116 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438139977 - 13: 9781438139975
This eBook presents a range of full-length critical essays on one of John Steinbeck's greatest novels.
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Autore: Harold Bloom David Rosenberg | Casa editrice: Leonardo (Milano) Data di pubblicazione: 1992 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 320 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 8835501679 - 13: 9788835501671
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 609 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0791093735 - 13: 9780791093733
From Daniel Defoe to Philip Roth, from Charles Dickens to Amy Tan, Novelists and Novels contains esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom's writings on the greatest novels and novelists in the Western tradition. Bloom's brilliant insights and lively discour [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Chelsea House Publishers Data di pubblicazione: 1997 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 200 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0791044807 - 13: 9780791044803
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 507 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0791093751 - 13: 9780791093757
In this volume, Bloom considers poets Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, William Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Butler Yeats, and many others.
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Simon and Schuster Data di pubblicazione: 2001 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 288 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0684859076 - 13: 9780684859071
Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Oxford University Press Data di pubblicazione: 2003 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 206 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0195162218 - 13: 9780195162219
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 imag [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Bureau Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli Data di pubblicazione: 2003 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 575 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 8817107980 - 13: 9788817107983
Analizzando le opere maggiori di Shakespeare, Bloom dimostra che il drammaturgo, più che semplici ruoli teatrali o personaggi, ha creato vere e proprie personalità. Dopo oltre 12 anni trascorsi a studiarlo e a insegnarlo, Bloom si arrende, ammirato, al [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 210 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1604135875 - 13: 9781604135879
Through the years, this Canadian writer has emerged as a master of the short story. The compressed and encapsulated energies of the form allow Alice Munro to peel away at the smooth and mundane surfaces that contain her characters' lives to reveal h [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Facts on File Data di pubblicazione: 1994 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1555464289 - 13: 9781555464288
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2003 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 152 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0791061728 - 13: 9780791061725
Examines the life and work of twentieth-century American author John Steinbeck, featuring a biographical profile, critical analysis of the themes, symbols, and ideas in his writing, a selection of critical essays, a chronology, and references.
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 155 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438115482 - 13: 9781438115481
Woolf was once the center of the Bloomsbury Group and a fierce Women's Rights activist; her lasting contributions to the world of literature, however, are often overshadowed by her tragic suicide.
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 185 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438113730 - 13: 9781438113739
The classic 1951 novel by J.D. Salinger is analyzed.
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 241 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0791093700 - 13: 9780791093702
Bloom muses on some of the greatest philosophical and critical thinkers to have graced the page. Some of the writers covered included Friedrich Nietzsche, William Hazlitt, and Sigmund Freud.
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Autore: Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2014 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 225 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438119283 - 13: 9781438119281
Through a series of vivid and critically acclaimed novels, including "Blood Meridian," "All the Pretty Horses," "No Country for Old Men," and "The Road," Cormac McCarthy has established himself as a major voice in American fiction of the late 20th and ea [...]
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Autore: Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2014 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 217 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438119321 - 13: 9781438119328
Truman Capote, at just 21 years old, was seen as the most promising young talent of 1945. His masterpiece, "In Cold Blood," proved to be an amalgamation of his journalistic talent, his astute observations, and his skill at creating realistic dialogue and [...]
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Autore: Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 199 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438114028 - 13: 9781438114026
Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis climaxes in the very first line-the protagonist has indeed been transformed. The critical questions lie in the interpretation of the change. Kafka has been said to have offered everything from a psychological parable of th [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2010 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 246 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438131097 - 13: 9781438131092
The author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles is among the most highly respected science fiction and fantasy writers today. His works explore the nature, implication, and limits of the human, in both terrestrial and extraterrestrial realms. Bra [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Abscondita Data di pubblicazione: 2018 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 168 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 8884167361 - 13: 9788884167361
«La storia della poesia, come il nostro libro vuole dimostrare, dev'essere considerata indistinguibile dall'influenza poetica, poiché i poeti forti costruiscono tale storia travisandosi l'un l'altro, in modo da liberare un nuovo spazio alla propria imm [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2010 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 270 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1604134453 - 13: 9781604134452
The trickster, whether in the form of a benign practical joker or an evil charlatan, has been a popular literary character for centuries. This volume examines the role of the trickster in works such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Hamlet, Love [...]
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Autore: Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Chelsea House Data di pubblicazione: 1986 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 191 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0877546711 - 13: 9780877546719
-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights
-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary write [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Yale University Press Data di pubblicazione: 2020 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 512 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0300255810 - 13: 9780300255812
“The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon as you can.” (p. 13)
The last [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Simon and Schuster Data di pubblicazione: 2019 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 160 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1501164236 - 13: 9781501164231
From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othello’s Iago, perhaps the Bard’s most compelling villain—the fourth in a series of five short books about the great playwright’s most significant persona [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Cornell University Press Data di pubblicazione: 1971 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 477 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0801491177 - 13: 9780801491177
This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single volume. It is both a valuable introduction to the Romantics and an influential work of literary criticism. [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2009 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 324 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0791093743 - 13: 9780791093740
Dramatists and Dramas presents the best of acclaimed critic and scholar Harold Bloom's writings on the world's greatest dramatists and their timeless plays. Bloom's coverage ranges from the ancient Greeks to the modern day, with a particular emphasis on [...]
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Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Simon and Schuster Data di pubblicazione: 2019 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 176 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1501164201 - 13: 9781501164200
From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, a beloved professor who has taught the Bard for over half a century—an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Lear, arguably Shakespeare’s most tragic and compelling character, the [...]
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Autore: Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom William Shakespeare | Casa editrice: Infobase Publishing Data di pubblicazione: 2010 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 215 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1438134355 - 13: 9781438134352
Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations, a series of more than 100 volumes, presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels, and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and The Iliad to such modern and contempo [...]
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The Western Canon
Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Data di pubblicazione: 2014 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 751 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0547546483 - 13: 9780547546483
The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller. NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a [...]
L'angoscia dell'influenza. Una teoria della poesia
Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Data di pubblicazione: 2014 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 168 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 8884164591 - 13: 9788884164599
The Anxiety of Influence
Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Data di pubblicazione: 1997 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 212 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0195112210 - 13: 9780195112214
The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.
King Lear
Autore: William Shakespeare | Casa editrice: Yale University Press Data di pubblicazione: 2008 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 251 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 0300134703 - 13: 9780300134704
This collection of inter-related stories about a sixteenth-century Prague rabbi and the golem he created became an immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1909. So widely popular and influential was Yudl Rosenberg's book, it is no exaggeration to cl [...]
Shakespeare: Invention of the Human
Autore: Harold Bloom | Casa editrice: Riverhead Books Data di pubblicazione: 1998 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 772 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 157322751X - 13: 9781573227513
"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, [...]
