Harold Bloom
1) Black Boy
Author
Series
Publisher
Facts on File Inc, /DBA Infobase Publishing
Language
English
Description
This new addition to the Bloom's Guides series delves into Black Boy with critical excerpts examining this novelistic autobiography, an annotated bibliography of Wright's works, an index for easy reference, and an introductory essay from literature professor Harold Bloom.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor of English at New York University, and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. He has written more than 20 books of literary criticism. From a lifetime of writing and teaching about literature, this great scholar exhorts readers to consider the pleasures and benefits of reading well. Beginning with a basic question, "Why read?" Bloom offers his thoughts...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
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.
Series
Language
English
Description
Bloom's Major Short Story Writers are easy-to-follow guides to the most popular short story writers whose works are taught in high schools, colleges, and universities today. Each book is edited by the preeminent literary critic of our time, Harold Bloom, and contains a variety of critical views on the world's greatest short stories. These volumes are the perfect introduction to critical study of these important works by writers such as Mark Twain,...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Language
English
Description
Hamlet: poem Unlimited is Bloom's attempt to uncover the mystery of both Prince Hamlet and the play itself, how both prince and drama are able to break through the conventions of theatrical mimesis and the representation of character, making us question the very nature of theatrical illusion. In twenty-five brief chapters, Bloom takes us through the major soliloquies, scenes, characters, and action of the play, to explore the enigma at the heart of...
Author
Publisher
Facts on File Inc, /DBA Infobase Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joseph Heller's Catch22, New Edition offers a varied selection of fulllength essays, a detailed chronology, and a thorough index that provide an ideal critical companion for readers hoping to broaden their appreciation of Heller's modern masterpiece.
16) Charles Dickens
Language
English
Description
A collection of critical essays on Dickens and his works.
18) Mark Twain
Series
Language
English
Description
This book presents biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on Mark Twain's best-known short stories, including "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," "Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut," and others.
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...
