VIVA BLOOM'S NOTES
Description
Let Yale University Harold Bloom'author of The Western Canon and a leading authority on literature'help develop your understanding of the world's great literary works. Unlike other study guides, Viva Bloom's Notes offea wide selection of critical analyses by renowned scholars, as well as concise biographical and bibliographical information and a comprehensive thematic discussion of the plot'all in one handbook.
Includes:
Introduction by Harold Bloom
Thematic and Structural Analysis
List of Characters
Extracts of Major Critical Essays
Extensive Bibliography
Index of Themes and Ideas
The ideal aid to all students, Viva Bloom's Notes is a definitive guide for independent study and a single source for footnoting essays and research papers.
About the Author: Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English at the New York University Graduate School. He is the author of twenty books and the editor of more than thirty anthologies of literature and literary criticism.
Professor Bloom's works include Shelley's Mythmaking (1959), The Visionary Company (1961), Blake's Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), and Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism (1982), The Anxiety of Influence (1973) sets forth Professor Bloom's provocative theory of the literary relationships between the great writeand their predecessors. His most recent books are The American Religion (1992) and The Western Canon (1994).
Professor Bloom earned his PhD from Yale University in 1955 and has served on the Yale faculty since then. He is a 1985 MacArthur Foundation Award recipient and served as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University in 1987-88. He is currently the editor of the Chelsea House series Major Literary Characteand Modern Critical Views, and other Chelsea House series in literary criticism.
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Book Details
- ISBN: 8130904535
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- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 2007
- Number of Pages: 96
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- Publisher: VIVA BOOKS
- Language: English
- Weight: 0.12 g
