- 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.
- Critical essays reflecting a variety of schools of criticism - Notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index...
Night, a memoir by concentration camp survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Elie Wiesel, is a key work of Holocaust literature. It bears witness to the horrors endured by a teenage boy whose freedom and family are forcibly wrested from him. This new study guide to Wiesel's moving story also features an annotated bibliography, a listing of other works by the author, and an introduction by literary scholar Harold Bloom.
Night, a memoir by concentration camp survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Elie Wiesel, is a key work of Holocaust literature. It bears witness to...
In "The Kite Runner," history and personal responsibility come together in the story of Amir, an Afghan boy who is haunted by the guilt of betraying his childhood friend Hassan, the son of his fathers servant. In the background loom the many tumultuous changes that have gripped Afghanistan in the years since Amirs carefree kite-flying childhood. From the fall of the monarchy through the Soviet invasion to the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States to the rise of the Taliban regime, the story of Amir and Hassan emerges as the story of Afghanistan itself. The engaging new...
In "The Kite Runner," history and personal responsibility come together in the story of Amir, an Afghan boy who is haunted by the guilt of betraying h...
In this classic coming-of-age novel set in post-World War II America, Esther Greenwood emerges as a double for author Sylvia Plath. A summer internship at a fashion magazine in New York City reveals only the lack of beauty in the young womans inner life, as Esther succumbs to a pervasive depression that she likens to being trapped beneath the title object, a bell jar, struggling for her next breath. Noted literary scholar Harold Bloom introduces this new title in the Blooms Guides series, which also features an annotated bibliography and a listing of other works by the author.
In this classic coming-of-age novel set in post-World War II America, Esther Greenwood emerges as a double for author Sylvia Plath. A summer internshi...
Though critical opinion of the literary merit of Edgar Allan Poes writing has varied widely since his death in 1849, his tales have remained popular for their gothic sensibilities and evocative explorations of human vice and desire. Poes influence on subsequent generations of science fiction and horror writers cannot be understated. This new collection of full-length critical essays explores the enduring works of this esteemed writer and the often-shadowy worlds he brings to life. This study guide to A Tell-Tale Heart and other Poe stories features a chronology of the authors life, a...
Though critical opinion of the literary merit of Edgar Allan Poes writing has varied widely since his death in 1849, his tales have remained popular f...
Published in 1947, "A Streetcar Named Desire" garnered Tennessee Williams the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Considered a lyrical masterpiece, the drama reveals the destructive impact that ensues when romantic impulse encounters animal vitalism. This new volume in the acclaimed Blooms Modern Critical Interpretations series offers fresh insight into one of the greatest American plays of the 20th century. Master scholar Harold Bloom introduces the novel in this study guide, which also features a chronology, a bibliography, an index, and notes on the contributors.
Published in 1947, "A Streetcar Named Desire" garnered Tennessee Williams the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Considered a...
Produced after the death of Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night is generally considered the author's masterpiece and a seminal drama of the 20th century. The play explores the contradictory nature of family and the deep, yet tenuous, bonds uniting the Tyrones. O'Neill added autobiographical resonance to his portrait of four flawed dreamers struggling to accept the limitations and vulnerabilities with which they have been burdened. This new edition in the Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series offers a selection of full-length critical essays that explore the restrictive,...
Produced after the death of Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night is generally considered the author's masterpiece and a seminal drama of t...
Carson McCullers was a diverse and multitalented writer who produced two plays and numerous short stories, essays, and poems. But it is her fiction, including The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, that established her as a key voice of the 1940s and '50s. Critics have praised her lyrical evocations of the yearning for love, always tempered by a harsh acknowledgment of the futility of the quest. This new edition of full-length critical essays offers illuminating discussions of McCullers's work and its place in the American canon. This...
Carson McCullers was a diverse and multitalented writer who produced two plays and numerous short stories, essays, and poems. But it is her fiction...
Through a series of vivid and critically acclaimed novels, including "Blood Meridian," "All the Pretty Horses," "No Country for Old Men," and "The Road," Cormac McCarthy has established himself as a major voice in American fiction of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His works are marked by piercing explorations of the nature of evil and the uncontrollable forces that often govern human lives. This new edition offers a fresh selection of full-length critical essays discussing the multifaceted novels of this American master, as well as an editors note from literary scholar Harold Bloom,...
Through a series of vivid and critically acclaimed novels, including "Blood Meridian," "All the Pretty Horses," "No Country for Old Men," and "The Roa...
Harold Bloom (*1930) si sérií knih ze 70. let, z nichž nejvýznamnější je právě Úzkost z ovlivnění, vydobyl pozici nejvýraznějšího amerického kritika své generace, dosáhl nejvyšších akademických pozic a trvale se zapsal do obecného kulturního povědomí. Pojem vlivu či ovlivnění je inspirován především Nietzschem, Freudem, prorockými básněmi Williama Blakea a gnostickou teologií. V ostrém kontrastu k předtím dominantnímu přístupu angloamerické nové kritiky Bloom zdůrazňuje osobní zápas básníka o nalezení vlastního hlasu – a rozvíjí...
Harold Bloom (*1930) si sérií knih ze 70. let, z nichž nejvýznamnější je právě Úzkost z ovlivnění, vydobyl pozici nejvýraznějšího amer...