Search result for Harold Bloom

Description: The Crucible still has permanence and relevance a half century after its initial publication. This powerful political drama set amidst the S...

Description: A collection of critical essays on Huxley, his satires, and fiction works with a chronology of events in the author's life.

Description: Historically, exploration and colonization have been linked in troubling ways. This new volume discussesthe roles of exploration and coloniz...

Description: George Orwell wrote many essays and political pamphlets, yet most know him for his fable Animal Farm and his dystopian novel 1984. The essay...

Description: Provides a biography of author Stephen King along with critical views of his work.

Description: Presents critical analyses of five novels by Henry James, each with a plot summary and list of characters, and includes a biography of James...

Description: This edition analyzes four of Jonson's works, including Volpone, The Alchemist, Every Man in His Humour, and Bartholomew Fair.

Description: Provides reviews of six prominent works by the poet Thomas Hardy along with criticism and thematic analysis of other works and a short biogr...

Description: Presents a compilation of Bloom's introductions to the Modern critical views and Modern critical interpretations series of books, focusing o...

Description: Read what Bloom had to say on the world's great novelists including Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Franz Kafka, Ernest H...

Description: Presents a compilation of Bloom's introductions to the Modern critical views and Modern critical interpretations series of books, focusing o...

Description: Presents a compilation of Bloom's introductions to the Modern critical views and Modern critical interpretations series of books, focusing o...

Description: A critical overview of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel features the writings of Fred Erisman, William T. Going, Claudia Durst Johnson, and ...

Description: Presents a collection of critical essays about Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five.

Description: Harold Bloom, autor de El canon occidental, ha escrito este precioso libro regalo donde vuelve a combinar su permanente interés por la relig...

Description: Em toda a literatura os anjos servem como metáfora da morte. Por quê? Ser caído faz parte da condição humana, explica Harold Bloom, autor de...

Description: Explores the author's literary work through critical essays that examine such themes as the Middle-Earth concept, mythology, and the relatio...

Description: - Critical essays reflecting a variety of schools of criticism - Notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and a...

Description: An American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director, Norman Mailer won the Pulitzer Prize twice and...

Description: The second volume in Bloom's series of works which reveal his theory of revisionism, "A Map of Misreading" demonstrates his theory that patt...

Description: At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the author explores reasons for reading and de...

Description: Diese Einführung in die 'Kunst des Lesens' ist nicht an theoretischen Einsichten orientiert, sondern an den konkreten Leseerfahrungen des Au...

Description: The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.