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American Canon - Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon by BLOOM HAROLD
$60.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
America's foremost literary critic celebrates the American pantheon of great writers from Walt Whitman to Ralph Ellison, to Ursula K. LeGuin, Philip Roth, and more.
Christina Rosetti by Harold Bloom
$0.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Bloom's Major Poets S.
Christina Rossetti, considered to be one of the finest Victorian poets, is perhaps best known for her poem 'Goblin Market'. Other poems discussed in this volume include 'Remember', 'Echo' and 'Passing Away'. Ages 14+.
Cleopatra - I Am Fire and Air by Harold Bloom
$28.99 NZD
Category: Languages & Reference | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history-and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature. She is the lover of Marc Antony, defender of Egypt, and, perhaps most enduringly, a champion of life. Cleopatra is supremely vexing, tragic, and complex. She has fascin ...Show more
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
$24.99 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: good-very good
A new book by America’s leading literary critic on the uses of deep reading. Practical, inspirational and learned, How to Read and Why is Bloom’s manifesto for the preponderance of written culture. In the vastly influential The Western Canon, Harold Bloom outlined what we should read to understand a gre ...Show more
Kabbalah and Criticism by Harold Bloom
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
An analysis of the kabbalah, a mystical Judaic system. This book provides a study of the Kabbablah itself, of its commentators - the 'revisionary ratios' they employed - and of its significance as a model for contemporary criticism.
Lear - The Great Image of Authority by Harold Bloom
$28.99 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
King Lear is perhaps the most poignant character in literature. The aged, abused monarch is at once the consummate figure of authority and the classic example of the fall from majesty. He is widely agreed to be William Shakespeare's most moving, tragic hero.Award-winning writer and beloved professor Har ...Show more
Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind by Harold Bloom
$29.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
From Harold Bloom, the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of William Shakespeare's most complex and compelling anti-heroes--the final volume in a series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities: Falstaff, Cleopatra, Lear, Iag ...Show more
The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom
$45.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
'Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it', writes Harold Bloom in "The Anatomy of Influence", 'is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate'. For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of the written word with students and readers. In this, h ...Show more
The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life by Harold Bloom
$0.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
'Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it', writes Harold Bloom in "The Anatomy of Influence", 'is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate'. For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of the written word with students and readers. In this, h ...Show more
The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread by HAROLD BLOOM
$37.00 NZD
Category: Languages & Reference
America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition--from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man--in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold ...Show more
Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems by Harold Bloom
$49.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
'By definition, all living poets are excluded from this book. Myself seventy-nine years of age, I grieve still for many of these poets who were my friends. But knowledge, not pathos, is my purpose in gathering this anthology. Lastness is a part of knowing' - Harold Bloom. Harold Bloom is undisputedly th ...Show more
Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems by Harold Bloom
$26.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
An anthology of the final works of great poets. It curates the last poems of one hundred influential poets. Each of these poems, sometimes the literal end and other times the imagined conclusion to a poetic career, offer a lens through which to contemplate the enduring nature of art and the inevitabilit ...Show more
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