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Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom. PETER FREESE. Kurt. Vonnegut's. Slaughterhouse-Five. or,. How. to. Storify. an. Atrocity. D. uring the night of February 13, 1945, three waves of British and ...
The Lord of the Rings: New Edition

The Lord of the Rings: New Edition

Harold Bloom

- Critical essays reflecting a variety of schools of criticism - Notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index - An introductory essay by Harold Bloom.
The Western Canon

The Western Canon

Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon.
Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire

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Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom. GEORGE W. CRANDELL Misrepresentation and Miscegenation: Reading the Racialized Discourse of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire ...
Novelists and Novels

Novelists and Novels

Harold Bloom

Read what Bloom had to say on the world's great novelists including Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemmingway and more.
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

Harold Bloom

As he reflects on a lifetime lived among the works explored in this book, Bloom has himself, in this magnificent achievement, created a work touched by the daemon.
Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night

Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night

Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, Harold Bloom . LAURIN PORTER. Long. Day's. Journey. into. Night: Descent. into. Darkness. G. eorge Cram Cook, a close friend of O'Neill, once remarked upon the ...
Poets and Poems

Poets and Poems

Harold Bloom

Presents a compilation of Bloom's introductions to the Modern critical views and Modern critical interpretations series of books, focusing on poets and poems.
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry

The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry

Harold Bloom

This second edition contains a new Introduction, which explains the genesis of Bloom's thinking and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism of the past twenty years.criticism of the past twenty years.
James Joyce

James Joyce

Harold Bloom

Presents twelve critical essays on the Irish writer and his works.
Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Harold Bloom

Presents a collection of criticism and analysis of the works of the nineteenth-century American poet.
Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin

Harold Bloom

A collection of critical essays on the novels and short stories of the nineteenth-century Southern writer.
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

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Each title features: - An in-depth critical portrait of an essential writer presented in a historical context - A useful chronology - An introduction by Harold Bloom.
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Harold Bloom

Critical essays discuss the language, symbolism, characters, and themes of the classic novel about British colonialism in Nigeria.
Alice Munro

Alice Munro

Harold Bloom

Essays explore the short story writer's focus on themes including complicity, friendship, gender relations, and the natural world.
Casualty Actuarial Society Forum

Casualty Actuarial Society Forum

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Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

Harold Bloom

Presents a collection of critical essays about Conrad's famous novel, arranged in chronological order of publication.
John Milton: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide

John Milton: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide

Harold Bloom

Critical essays analyze the themes, style, and emotions of Milton's poetry
Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar

Harold Bloom

An overview of the novel features a biographical sketch of the American author, a list of characters, a summary of the plot, and critical and analytical views of the work.
J. D. Salinger, New Edition

J. D. Salinger, New Edition

Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom

Presents a collection of critical essays on Salinger and his works as well as a chronology of events in the author's life.
Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience

Harold Bloom

This new volume discussesthe roles of exploration and colonization in Heart of Darkness, The Iliad, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Things Fall Apart, Wide Sargasso Sea, and other literary works.
William Shakespeare: Comedies

William Shakespeare: Comedies

Harold Bloom

Presents a collection of critical essays on the comedic works of William Shakespeare.
Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor

Harold Bloom

Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of Flannery O'Connor.
Truman Capote

Truman Capote

Harold Bloom

Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of Truman Capote.
Who Killed the Queen?: The Story of a Community Hospital and ...

Who Killed the Queen?: The Story of a Community Hospital and ...

Holly Dressel

1 Griffith, Harold, “Highlights in the Life of Harold Randall Griffith.” Griffith, Harold. Diary entry, 160. Griffith, Harold. “Highlights in the Life of Harold Randall Griffith,” 31. This and all subsequent quotes about Vimy are from Harold Griffith's letter ...
Bridges to fantasy

Bridges to fantasy

George Edgar Slusser

Essays by literary critics, such as Harold Bloom, Roger Sale, and Larry McCaffery, analyze the structure and recurrent themes of a wide range of fantasy literature
Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Literature: West ...

Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Literature: West ...

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2, 2009. . Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Lost World. 1912. Elmer, Jonathan. “Spectacle and Event in Native Son.” American Literature 70, 4 (Dec. 1998): 767–98. Rpt. Bloom''s Modern Critical Interpretations : Richard Wright''s Native Son. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2009. 127–53. Escoube, Lucienne. “No Film Has Ever Depicted the Life of Blacks in American Cities.” L''Ecran Française (Nov. 19, 1946): 12. Trans. Keneth Kinnamon.
How to Read and Why

How to Read and Why

Harold Bloom

At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the author explores reasons for reading and demonstrates the aesthetic pleasure reading can bring.
Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

Harold Bloom

This volume examines some of the finest Native American writers, including Joy Harjo, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, Sherman Alexie, N. Scott Momaday, Samsom Occom, Zitkala-aa, and Leslie Marmon Silko.

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