Bøker av 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."

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.

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

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.

This is the book that introduced deconstruction as a tool for literary and cultural theorists throughout the English-speaking world, and set the ball rolling for the subsequent controversies over the use of theory to study liuterature.

Reading the King James Bible alongside Tyndale's Bible, the Geneva Bible, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts, the author highlights how the translators and editors improved upon - or, in some cases, diminished - the earlier versions.

Featuring extended analyses of the author's most cherished poets - Shakespeare, Whitman, and Crane - as well as inspired appreciations of Emerson, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Ashbery, and others, this title adapts his classic work "The Anxiety of Influence" to show us what great literature is, how it comes to be, and why it matters.

J.R.R. Tolkien drew on his professorial expertise in Anglo-Saxon literature and the early mythology and folklore of Britain in creating this popular classic centring on the perils of Bilbo Baggins. Harold Bloom introduces this compilation of concise critical excerpts, which also includes an annotated bibliography and an index for easy reference.