Harold Bloom
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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 required reading list—it is a “heroically brave, formidably learned” defense of the great works of literature that comprise the traditional
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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...
In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original...
10) Poets and poems
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English
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English Professor Harold Bloom introduces students to the most prominent poets and poems in the English language. Bloom offers his interpretations and opinions on the most well-known work from each author included.
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Provides critical analysis of about 100 novels, essays, and drama by fifty-six authors. Features a variety of genres, including "Don Quixote," "Frankenstein," "Jane Eyre," "Anna Karenina," "Huckleberry Finn," "The Red Badge of Courage," "The Great Gatsby," "Animal Farm," and "The Joy Luck Club."
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Provides critical analysis of thirty-three playwrights and their various dramatic works. Features discussions about Sophocles, William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Neil Simon, Sam Shepard, August Wilson, and Tony Kushner.
13) The epic
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Professor Harold Bloom offers brief critical overviews of the most prominent epics ever written. Includes information on the major themes, characters, and other literary elements found in each work. Includes lists of books and articles offering more in-depth analysis for every piece discussed.
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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...
18) Toni Morrison
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English
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Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of African American author Toni Morrison.
19) Jane Austen
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English
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Contains selections of literary criticism written between 1813 and 1913 that look at the life, general career, and specific works of English novelist Jane Austen.
20) 1984: a novel
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Orwell's classic novel of one man's nightmare odyssey through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but individual thought and memory.