Harold Bloom Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Die zentrale These in diesem Werk von Harold Bloom besagt, dass Dichtung aus der Angst vor dem Einfluss großer Vorbilder entsteht. Diese Angst hemmt zwar die Produktivität, fungiert jedoch gleichzeitig als starke Antriebskraft für das literarische Schaffen. Junge Dichter versuchen, sich aus dem Schatten ihrer Klassiker zu befreien, indem sie deren Werke einer aggressiven "Fehllektüre" unterziehen, um eigene Texte zu entwickeln. Alle Lektüren sind letztlich "Fehllektüren", und die Bedeutung eines Textes entsteht in einem dynamischen Austausch zwischen verschiedenen Werken, was die Literaturgeschichte als ein Schlachtfeld darstellt.

"Wonderful. . . . Spectacular. . . . You feel the pulse of life, what poetry can bring to us if we let it." —The Philadelphia Inquirer "This audacious personal odyssey offers readers a cosmos of possibilities when contemplating what happens once we 'shuffle off this mortal coil.'" —The Christian Science Monitor "An elegiac meditation on a life lived through books." —O, The Oprah Magazine "The great critic revisits the literature that has meant most to him." —The New York Times Book Review Here is the daringly original literary critic's most personal book: a four-part spiritual autobiography in the form of brief, luminous readings of poetry, drama, and prose—much of which he has known by heart since childhood. As one of his own mentors, M. H. Abrams, has said, to read Bloom's commentaries is like "reading classic authors by flashes of lightning." Gone are the polemics; here Bloom argues elegiacally with nobody but himself. In "A Voice she Heard Before the World Was Made," he offers startling meditations on foundational concerns of Biblical study. "In the Elegy Season" finds him coming to terms movingly, from a new vantage, with writers on whom he has brooded for much of his life. And with brio and bravura in "The Imperfect Is Our Paradise," Bloom ranges dazzlingly through twentieth-century American poetry, from Wallace Stevens to Amy Clampitt. Possessed by Memory, in short, is essential Bloom.

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 Bloom—who for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original and controversial literary critic—gives us his only book devoted entirely to the art of the novel. With his hallmark percipience, remarkable scholarship, and extraordinary devotion to sublimity, Bloom offers meditations on forty-eight essential works spanning the Western canon, from Don Quixote to Book of Numbers; from Wuthering Heights to Absalom, Absalom!; from Les Misérables to Blood Meridian; from Vanity Fair to Invisible Man. Here are trenchant appreciations of fiction by, among many others, Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Le Guin, and Sebald. Whether you have already read these books, plan to, or simply care about the importance and power of fiction, Harold Bloom is your unparalleled guide to understanding literature with new intimacy.

The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry

A book of poems by the world's celebrated poet.

Celebrated American literary critic Harold Bloom turns his attention to the writers of his own national literary tradition, from Walt Whitman and Herman Melville to William Faulkner and Hart Crane. The distillation of a lifetime of criticism, it is one of Bloom's most profoundly personal books to date.

Presents a collection of critical essays on the novel that analyze its structure, characters, narrator, and themes.

Südafrika in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Gewalt zwischen Schwarzen und Weißen regiert und zerstört das Land. Der Sohn des schwarzen Pfarrers Stephen Kumalo, Absalom, ist, wie viele junge Männer, nach Johannesburg gegangen – und nicht wiedergekommen. Wer dorthin geht, kommt nie wieder zurück. Dann kommt ein Brief. Stephen Kumalo, der schwarze Pfarrer, macht sich auf den Weg in die große, unbekannte Stadt. Er findet seinen Sohn im Gefängnis. Absalom hat bei einem Einbruch in Panik einen jungen Weißen erschossen. Gerade dieser Mann aber hatte sich sehr für die Rechte der Schwarzen eingesetzt. In einem Land, in dem Schwarze keine Rechte haben und im Elend leben, scheint Absaloms Schicksal besiegelt. Die Versöhnung zwischen den Vätern des Opfers und des Täters, zwischen weiß und schwarz, erscheint als Zeichen der Verheißung für eine bessere Zukunft. Neuausgabe des Welterfolgs, der 1948 erstmals erschienen.

- A complex critical portrait of one of the most influential writers in the world- Bibliographic information that directs readers to additional resources for further study- A useful chronology of the writer's life- An introductory essay by Harold Bloom.

Compared to the works of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, The House on Mango Street is made up of lyrical passages, interconnected vignettes, and meditations and observations that resemble prose poems. This book analyzes the work through critical essays, and features a bibliography, and notes on the contributing writers.

Presents critical essays that discuss the language, characters, plot, and major themes of the novel dealing with one man's memory of the fire-bombing of Dresden.

»Othello«, eine der großen Tragödien Shakespeares, war schon bei der Uraufführung (vermutlich im Jahre 1604) ein großer Erfolg und ist unverändert aktuell. Wir heute sehen in dem Stück Bezüge, die Shakespeares Zeitgenossen aufgrund eines völlig anderen Weltbildes noch entgingen. Diese Ausgabe enthält den englischen Text, eine genaue deutsche Prosaübersetzung, einen Anmerkungsteil und ein Nachwort.

»Was ist genau die Moral des ›Lear‹? Offenbar gibt es zwei. Die eine ist die gewöhnliche, die des gesunden Menschenverstandes, wie sie der Narr ausspricht: Verzichte nicht auf Macht! Gib dein Land nicht weg! Die andere Moral ist in der Geschichte implizit enthalten: Gib dein Land weg, wenn du willst; aber erwarte nicht, dass du dadurch glücklich wirst. Wahrscheinlich wirst du nicht glücklich. Wenn du für andere lebst, musst du für andere leben und darfst dir nicht auf diese Weise hintenherum selbst einen Vorteil verschaffen wollen.« George Orwell Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch

Dal Libro di Giobbe all'Ecclesiaste, dalle opere di Platone a quelle di Cervantes, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Nietsche e Proust. Un libro per rispondere a una domanda cruciale: a che cosa serve la letteratura? (LaFeltrinelli.it)

An anthology of poems which attempts to give readers the possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry.

This book presents a collection of essays exploring various aspects of the novel "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka.

In questo saggio Bloom intende dimostrare che la tradizione giudaico-cristiana in realtà non esiste, che ebraismo e cristianesimo sono di fatto incompatibili. Esaminando con il metodo della critica letteraria e storica la Torà ebraica, l'Antico e il Nuovo Testamento e i Vangeli gnostici contemporanei a quelli canonici, Bloom arriva alla conclusione che il Gesù "ebraico" di Marco, così umano, irascibile e incline all'ironia, potrebbe essere davvero figlio di quella divinità fin troppo umana che è lo Jahvè della Torà; mentre il Cristo degli altri libri del Nuovo Testamento proviene da una famiglia del tutto diversa; e lo Jahvè degli ebrei e il Dio Padre dei cristiani hanno ben poco in comune.

A critical overview of the work features such contributors as Bernard W. Bell, Trudier Harris, Nancy Jesser, and Susan Corey.

J is the title that scholars ascribe to the nameless writer they believe is responsible for the text, written between 950 & 900, on which Genesis, Exodus & Numbers is based. In The Book of J, Bloom & Rosenberg draw the J text out of the surrounding material & present it as the seminal classic it is. In addition to Rosenberg's original translations, Bloom argues in several essays that "J" was not a religious writer but a fierce ironist & a woman living in the court of King Solomon. He also argues that J is a writer on par with Homer, Shakespeare & Tolstoy. Bloom also offers historical context, a discussion of the theory of how the different texts came together to create the Bible & translation notes. Rosenberg's translations from the Hebrew bring J's stories to life & reveal her towering originality & grasp of humanity.

Das ist die Geschichte der beiden Liebenden aus Verona, die wegen einer Familienfehde nicht zusammenkommen konnten, ist dank William Shakespeare weltberühmt geworden.

Harold Bloom has selected poems by Australian poet, John Kinsella, and provides an introduction to them.

-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights -- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a monumental figure in 19th-century Germany, and his Faust stands among the finest works of Western literature.

Frye addresses what he sees as the four main approaches to criticism: the historical, the ethical, the archetypal and the theoretical. His text is considered a classic of modern literary criticism.

The nation's most celebrated literary critic introduces children to the exciting world of literature through this collection of great stories by Hans Christian Andersen, William Blake, O. Henry, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and others. 100,000 first printing.

Diese Einführung in die 'Kunst des Lesens' ist nicht an theoretischen Einsichten orientiert, sondern an den konkreten Leseerfahrungen des Autors, eines US-amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaftlers. Das Buch lädt ein zu Streifzügen durch die abendländische und die US-amerikanische Literaturgeschichte, mit Schwerpunkt auf dem 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Dabei werden immer nur ein, zwei Texte eines Autors aufgegriffen, knapp, lebendig und geistreich interpretiert und zugleich als sujektives Leseerlebnis nachvollziehbar gemacht. Der Autor will in ähnlicher Weise zum Lesen verführen, wie dies zuletzt Rolf Vollmann 1997 so glänzend gelang ('Die wunderbaren Falschmünzer': BA 6/97), Empfehlung als gute Ergänzung zu Vollmanns Werk in größeren Bibliotheken. (2).

Blooms Verdienst ist es, sowohl dem Laien als auch dem von wissenschaftlichen Theorien strapazierten Theaterkenner einen spannenden, höchst amüsanten Zugang zum Rätsel Shakespeare zu eröffnen, ohne es zu entzaubern. Einen besseren Begleiter durch das Werk des bedeutendsten Dramatikers der Neuzeit gibt es nicht.

The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.

Literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list—it is a vision. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the great works of the western literary tradition and essential writers of the ages. The Western Canon was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

A study of twenty-six canonical writers details the qualities that make them literary essentials, and includes Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Beckett, Tolstoy, Freud, Moliere, and others.

The author of The Book of J analyzes the American religious imagination to produce this brilliant examination of a national soul. His consensus: America is a nation of Gnostics, believers in a pre-Christian tradition of individual divinity.

Gathers critical essays representing literary discussions about Alice Walker and her work, including essays on some of her specific works, Walker's relationship to other authors, and her treatment of gender and race themes.

This volume devotes over 100 pages to William Blake, including The Book of Thel and the entire "Night the Ninth" from The Four Zoas, as well as excerpts from Milton and Jerusalem. It also includes poems and prose by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Byron.