"Beowulf" (Bloom's Notes) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791040828 ISBN 13: 9780791040829

Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

Includes information about the author of "Beowulf," thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.

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Review

"Students preparing research papers and students boning up for class will reach eagerly for these well-designed additions to accessible literary criticism..."

About the Author

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. He is the author of 30 books, including Shelley's Mythmaking, The Visionary Company, Blake's Apocalypse, Yeats, A Map of Misreading, Kabbalah and Criticism, Agon: Toward a Theory of Revisionism, The American Religion, The Western Canon, and Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection. The Anxiety of Influence sets forth Professor Bloom's provocative theory of the literary relationships between the great writers and their predecessors. His most recent books include Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, a 1998 National Book Award finalist; How to Read and Why; Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds; Hamlet: Poem Unlimited; Where Shall Wisdom be Found; and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine. In 1999, Professor Bloom received the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism. He has also received the International Prize of Catalonia, the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico, and the Hans Christian Andersen Bicentennial Prize of Denmark.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791040828
• ISBN 13: 9780791040829
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 90
• Editor: Bloom Harold