How to Read and Why

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Harold Bloom

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In the vastly influential "The Western Canon", Harold Bloom outlined what we should read to understand a greater depth of the individual self. "How to Read and Why" continues the argument and focusses on how we use literature in order to gain deeper self-awareness. Poems, stories, novels, plays and parables are all analyzed as forms of writing as immersion, the language of individuality and inwardness: Shakespeare's sonnets, the short stories of Hemingway and de Cervantes, the novels of Proust and Calvino, Sophocles's "Oedipus Rex" and Mark's Gospel. Harold Bloom also addresses the idea of why we read: increased individuality, respite from visual bombardment, a return to "deep feeling" and "deep thinking".

Author Biography:

Described in the New York Times as ' a colossus among critics [with] an encyclopedic intellect, exuberant eccentricity, a massive love of literature. The legend of his genius spans four decades' , Harold Bloom was born to a Yiddish-speaking family and learnt to speak English by reading the works of William Blake. He studied at Cornell, Pembroke College, Cambridge and Yale, and is Professor of Humanities at Yale and Professor of English at New York Universities, a regular contributor to literary journals and the recipient of many prizes and awards.

Release date NZ

September 3rd, 2001

Author

Harold Bloom

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

288

Dimensions

129x198x19

ISBN-13

9781841150390

Product ID

1706235

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