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Art of Reading Poetry by Harold Bloom
$18.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A paperback original, Bloom's stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language. A notable feature of Harold Bloom's poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers an eleg ...Show more
Deconstruction and Criticism by Harold Bloom
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
Five essential and challenging essays by leading post-modern theorists on the art and nature of interpretation: Jacques Derrida, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, and J. Hillis Miller.
Kabbalah and Criticism by Harold Bloom
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
An analysis of the kabbalah, a mystical Judaic system. This book provides a study of the Kabbablah itself, of its commentators - the 'revisionary ratios' they employed - and of its significance as a model for contemporary criticism.
Lear: The Great Image of Authority by Harold Bloom
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
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 ...Show more
Living with Shakespeare Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors by Carson Susannah Bloom Sterling Harold (Yale University New Directions New Directions New Directions New Directions New Directions New Directions New Directions New Directions New Directions New Directions Yale University Yale University New Directions
$21.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture. We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello ...Show more
Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind by Harold Bloom
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
From Harold Bloom, the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of William Shakespeare's most complex and compelling anti-heroes--the final volume in a series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities: Falstaff, Cleopatra, Lear, Iag ...Show more
Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly illuminating each work with unrivaled warmth, ...Show more
The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom
$46.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
'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 knowledge of the written word with students and readers. In this, h ...Show more
The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life by Harold Bloom
$29.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
'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 knowledge of the written word with students and readers. In this, h ...Show more
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry by Harold Bloom
$38.00 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
This is a study of the Romantic poets and the relation between tradition and the individual artist. For the second edition, Bloom offers a new introduction which explains the genesis of his thinking and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism of the past 20 years. It is intended for s ...Show more
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost by Harold Bloom
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Almost all other poetry anthologies have been edited and annotated by a committee of scholars. This is entirely Bloom's selection with his own inimitable commentary. This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book ...Show more