Bøger af Harold Bloom

A new book by America's leading literary critic on the uses of deep reading. Practical, inspirational and learned, How to Read and Why is Bloom's manifesto for the preponderance of written culture.

"The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists of ourselves." -Harold Bloom In The Art of Reading Poetry, Harold Bloom gives us his critical reflections on more than a half century devoted to reading, teaching, and writing about great verse, the literary achievements he loves most, and conveys his passionate concern for how a poem should be interpreted and appreciated. By illuminating such subjects as poetic voice, metaphor and allusion, and the nature of poetic value itself, Bloom presents an invaluable learning tool as a key to artistic expression.

An anthology of poems which attempts to give readers the possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry.

Harold Bloom on The Merchant of Venice: "Shylock's prose is Shakespeare's best before Falstaff's...His utterances manifest a spirit so potent, malign, and negative as to be unforgettable."

A critical novel about the ways in which we absorb various forms of wisdom from the literature we consume, from the author The New York Times calls "the most influential critic of the last quarter-century."In one of his most inspiring books yet, Harold Bloom, our preeminent literary critic, takes the reader from the Bible through the twentieth century, searching for the ways literature can inform lives. Through comparisons of the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes, Plato and Homer, Johnson and Goethe, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Montaigne and Bacon, Emerson and Nietzsche, Freud and Proust, and finally discussions of the Gospel of Thomas and St. Augustine, Bloom distills the various-and even contrary-forms of wisdom that have shaped our thinking.

From Bloom's now-canonical book "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human" come individual meditations on two of Shakespeare's most famous plays, each with the play's original text.

The landmark Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism, first published in the 1980s, is one of the most impressive collections of literary criticism ever produced. It is now available in digital format for the first time. This volume of the series provides excerpts and full-length critical essays on the playwright Edward Albee.

The landmark Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism, first published in the 1980s, is one of the most impressive collections of literary criticism ever produced. It is now available in digital format for the first time. This volume of the series provides excerpts and full-length critical essays on the Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood.

The landmark Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism, first published in the 1980s, is one of the most impressive collections of literary criticism ever produced. It is now available in digital format for the first time. This volume of the series provides excerpts and full-length critical essays on the playwright Maxwell Anderson.

The landmark Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism, first published in the 1980s, is one of the most impressive collections of literary criticism ever produced. It is now available in digital format for the first time. This volume of the series provides excerpts and full-length critical essays on the poet and memoirist Maya Angelou.

The landmark Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism, first published in the 1980s, is one of the most impressive collections of literary criticism ever produced. It is now available in digital format for the first time. This volume of the series provides excerpts and full-length critical essays on the writer James Agee.

A controversial national best seller upon its initial publication, The Book of J is an audacious work of literary restoration revealing one of the great narratives of all time and unveiling its mysterious author. J is the title that scholars ascribe to the nameless writer they believe is responsible for the text, written between 950 and 900 BCE, on which Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers is based. In The Book of J, accompanying David Rosenberg's translation, Harold Bloom persuasively argues that J was a woman—very likely a woman of the royal house at King Solomon's court—and a writer of the stature of Homer, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy. Rosenberg's translations from the Hebrew bring J's stories to life and reveal her towering originality and grasp of humanity. Bloom argues in several essays that "J" was not a religious writer but a fierce ironist. He also offers historical context, a discussion of the theory of how the different texts came together to create the Bible, and translation notes.

In this impassioned, erudite, and provocative work, Harold Bloom, bestselling author and America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams, and near-death experiences. Omens of Millennium traces these cultural phenomena from their ancient and traditional origins to their present-day, millennial manifestations. In addition, it is a personal account of Bloom's Gnosticism. Certain to educate, challenge, and entertain, Omens of Millennium is as fascinating as it is timely.

Macbeth es una de las tragedias más leídas y escenificadas de Shakespeare. El protagonista, un guerrero distinguido, se transforma en asesino despiadado consumido por la duda y la ambición. William Shakespeare sigue siendo estudiado desde diversas perspectivas y disciplinas por su óptimo conocimiento de las pasiones humanas. En una excelente traducción de Ángel-Luis Pujante, Harold Bloom nos muestra la transformación del personaje, adentrándose en su interioridad con perspicacia, agilidad y una alta dosis de compasión. La lucidez de su lectura convierte a Macbeth. Un puñal imaginario en el perfecto colofón de una serie fundamental compuesta por cinco títulos: Falstaff. Lo mío es la vida; Cleopatra. Soy fuego y aire; Lear. La gran imagen de la autoridad; Yago. Las estrategias del mal y Macbeth. Un puñal imaginario. Harold Bloom rinde homenaje -una vez más- a una de las mentes más prodigiosas e imaginativas de la literatura universal. El crítico dedicó sesenta años de su vida al análisis del corpus creativo de William Shakespeare. Cada uno de estos libros es una guía de viaje a nuestra interioridad, y cada personaje estudiado resulta esencial para comprender lo humano y sus elementos trágicos. La ambición y la ceguera de Macbeth, como sucedía en el Siglo V a. C., son espejos, extrañamente oscuros, mas al fin espejos que develan nuestra propia ineluctable fragilidad.Macbeth nos muestra que el teatro es personal, no admite límites: en cada obra cabe el universo personal y original de la imaginación.El aclamado crítico Bloom, una vez más, explora las profundidades de una obra de Shakespeare para revelar nuevas ideas [...] cambiarán las percepciones del lector de un clásico literario. Publishers Weekly

This book presents hundred of the most creative literary minds in history. It explores the numerous parallels between these geniuses and the surprising ways they have influenced one another over the centuries. Bloom analyses the poetry of Milton, Shelley, and Whitman; the drama of Ibsen and Tennessee Williams; and the narratives of Melville and Tolstoy, among many others.

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.Whether you have already read these books, are planning to, or simply care about the importance and power of fiction, Harold Bloom is your unparalleled guide to understanding them with new intimacy. 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, uncanny erudition, and extraordinary devotion to sublimity, Bloom offers meditations on forty-eight essential works spanning the Western canon, from Don Quixote to The 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.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles, ""Jude the Obscure"", ""The Mayor of Casterbridge"", 'Far from the Madding Crowd"", and ""The Return of the Native"" are some of the Hardy works. This title provides the students of literature with a selection of critical essays focusing on Hardy and his works, with a chronology of Hardy's life.

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.Perhaps no other literary critic but Harold Bloom could--or would--undertake a project of this immensity. And certainly no other critic could bring to it the extraordinary knowledge, understanding, and insight that are the hallmark of Bloom's every book. Ranging across centuries and continents, this final book of his career, gives us the inimitable critic on Don Quixote and Book of Numbers; Wuthering Heights and Absalom, Absalom; Les Miserables and Blood Meridian; Vanity Fair and Invisible Man; The Captain's Daughter and The Reef. He writes about works by Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Wolff, Le Guin, Sebald, and many more. Whether you have already read these books, or intend to, or simply care about the importance and power of fiction, Harold Bloom serves as an unparalleled guide through the pages of these 52 masterpieces of the genre.

A portrait of Macbeth, from the great Shakespeare scholar Harold Bloom. The final volume in a series of five short books about Shakespeare's most significant personalities: Falstaff, Cleopatra, Lear, Iago and Macbeth.