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Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
Harold BloomHarold 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 ...
Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire
PreviewHarold 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 ...
J. D. Salinger, New Edition
Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold BloomPresents a collection of critical essays on Salinger and his works as well as a chronology of events in the author's life.
Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night
Eugene O'NeillEugene 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 ...
Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism
Moshe IdelIf an intellectual Judaism is to survive, then Idel becomes essential reading, whatever your own spiritual allegiances."—Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University While many aspects of sonship have been analyzed in ...
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
Harold BloomHarold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon.
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Trial of ...
John Franklin East Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy Thomas C BrickhouseJohn Franklin East Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy Thomas C Brickhouse, Thomas C. Brickhouse, James F Miller Professor of Humanities Nicholas D Smith, Nicholas D. Smith. First published 2004 by Routledge 29 ...
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime
Harold BloomAs 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.
Novelists and Novels
Harold BloomRead 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 Scottish World
Harold OrelIntroduction Harold Orel, University Distinguished Professor in English, The University of Kansas i i i SCOTTISH STEREOTYPES Harold Orel 13 2 FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO 1058 Leslie Alcock, Professor of Archaeology, and Alexander ...
The Old World's New World
C. Vann Woodward Sterling Professor of History Yale University (Emeritus)C. Vann Woodward Sterling Professor of History Yale University (Emeritus). Introduction. For our sampling of European views of America we are dependent on those opinions that found written form and were preserved. Those not written or ...
Poets and Poems
Harold BloomPresents a compilation of Bloom's introductions to the Modern critical views and Modern critical interpretations series of books, focusing on poets and poems.
The Brontës
Harold BloomGeorge henry Lewes (1853) 105 Catharine M. sedgwick (1853) 106 T. Wemyss reid (1877) 107 Margaret oliphant (1892) 109 Louis e. Gates (1900) 109 The Professor: A Tale 111 Charlotte Brontë (1847) 111 elizabeth Gaskell (1857) 112 ...
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
Harold BloomThis 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.
Humanities through the Arts
F. David MartinHumanities Through the Arts, ninth edition, continues to explore the humanities with an emphasis upon the arts as an expression of cultural and personal values, examining the relationship of the humanities to important values, objects and ...
Ross Sterling, Texan: A Memoir by the Founder of Humble Oil ...
Ross S. SterlingAs a result of Bill Sterling's and his Texas Ranger colleagues' open support for Ross Sterling against Ma Ferguson in the election, Ferguson fired every man on the Ranger force when she became governor in January 1933. Under Ferguson ...
Rejuvenating the Humanities
Ray Broadus BrowneThe twenty essays in this effort to bring new vitality to the humanities range through fields familiar in life but unfamiliar in the humanities canon.
Written Communications for Engineers, Scientists, and ...
University of Michigan. Engineering Summer ConferencesJAMES PHILIP ZAPPEN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION: A.B. 1966 University of Detroit M.A. 1968 University of ...
A-Z Guide to Modern Social and Political Theorists
Professor Stuart SimProfessor Stuart Sim, Noel Parker. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1993. Newman, Michael, Harold Laski: A political biography, London: Macmillan,1993. Zylstra, Bernard, From Pluralism to Collectivism: The development of Harold Laski's ...
Emily Dickinson
Harold BloomPresents a collection of criticism and analysis of the works of the nineteenth-century American poet.
Kate Chopin
Harold BloomA collection of critical essays on the novels and short stories of the nineteenth-century Southern writer.
Instruments and Experimentation in the History of Chemistry
PreviewFrederic Lawrence Holmes, Trevor Harvey Levere. Mary Jo Nye is Horning Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at Oregon State University in Corvallis where she teaches the history of science. She has written on the history of ...
Catalog
Reed College (Portland, Or.)Frank Smith Fussner Assistant Professor of History and Humanities B.S., Harvard University, 1942; M.A., 1947; Ph.D., 1951. Reed, 1950-. Edwin Norman Garlan Professor of Philosophy B.A., University of Colorado, 1933; Ph.D., Columbia ...
Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach
Frederick Luis AldamaResponding to essential questions regarding whether the humanities can remain politically and academically relevant amid this twenty-first-century uncertainty, Why the Humanities Matter offers a guided tour of the modern condition, calling ...
Benjamin Franklin
PreviewEach 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
Harold BloomCritical essays discuss the language, symbolism, characters, and themes of the classic novel about British colonialism in Nigeria.
Alice Munro
Harold BloomEssays explore the short story writer's focus on themes including complicity, friendship, gender relations, and the natural world.
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