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Hailed for his novels of post-Depression American life, John Steinbeck has received equal acclaim for his short fiction. This examines the reception and legacy of such enduring works as The Red Pony, The Pearl and The Chrysanthemums. A chronology, bibliography, index, and introduction by Yale scholar Harold Bloom enhance this new title.
Discusses the role of death and dying in works such as ""Beloved"", ""Heart of Darkness"", ""King Lear"", ""A Separate Peace"", and many others. Featuring approximately 20 essays, this title provides insights on this recurring theme in literature.
Richard Wright's works are universally acknowledged as a starting point for black literature in contemporary America. Critics speak of the author as a pioneer, a man of rare courage. This volume of essays anzlyses Wright's ""Native Son"".
Covers the role of the hero's journey in Beowulf, The Lord of the Rings, Moby-Dick, and To Kill a Mockingbird, and many other works.
Discusses the role of alienation in ""The Catcher in the Rye"", ""Waiting for Godot"", and ""Hamlet"". This title features about 20 original essays and reprinted critical analyses that give students of literature valuable insight into this theme.
Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of The Western Canon, has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare's genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays.
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.
This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single volume. It is both a valuable introduction to the Romantics and an influential work of literary criticism...
Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations.
This dazzling book is at once an indispensable guide to Stevens's poetic canon and a significant addition to the literature on the American Romantic movement. It gives authoritative readings of the major long poems and sequences of Stevens and deals...
A study of the Romantic poets and the relation between tradition and the individual artist. For this second edition Bloom offers a new introduction which explains the genesis of his thinking and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism.
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