| The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present Revised Edition Contributor(s): Bloom, Harold (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674780280 ISBN-13: 9780674780286 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $37.62 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1991 Annotation: Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Iliad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by Freud, Kafka, and 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 is criticism at its best. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading - Poetry - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 809.1 |
| Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.62" W x 8.7" (0.61 lbs) 214 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Iliad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by Freud, Kafka, and 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 is criticism at its best. |