John Knowles' "A Separate Peace" (Modern Critical Interpretations S.) - Hardcover

Knowles, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791056635 ISBN 13: 9780791056639

Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

Essays examine the narrative, themes, structure, and characters of the classic novel about students at a private boys' academy during World War II.

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Review

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.,."thoughtful, well-developed ...expos[es] readers to a variety of scholarly perspectives and approaches."

"Students looking for criticism and analysis of literary works will find it easy to use this title rather than searching endlessly for the journals in which these articles may have originally appeared. A valuable resource for literature collections."

"This is the type of novel that is open to interpretation and students will gain a better understanding from reading all of the discussion. Doctorow is quoted in several chapters. Students looking for criticism and analysis of literary works will find it easy to use this title rather than searching endlessly for the journals in which these articles may have originally appeared. A valuable resource for literature collections."

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 (1959), The Visionary Company (1961), Blake's Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), Agon: Toward a Theory of Revisionism (1982), The American Religion (1992), The Western Canon (1994), and Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection (1996). The Anxiety of Influence (1973) 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 (1998), a 1998 National Book Award finalist, How to Read and Why (2000), Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (2002), Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003), Where Shall Wisdom be Found (2004), and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005). 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: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791056635
• ISBN 13: 9780791056639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Bloom Prof. Harold