How To Read And Why Lp

Harold Bloom

ISBN 10: 074320428X / ISBN 13: 9780743204286

Published by Scribner June 2000, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How To Read And Why Lp
• Publisher: Scribner June 2000
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074320428X
• ISBN 13: 9780743204286
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used - Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

For more than forty years, renowned literary critic Harold Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse the practice of reading, Bloom draws on his experience as critic, teacher, and prolific reader to plumb the great books for their sustaining wisdom. Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self. Bloom provides illuminating guidance on how to read the works of beloved writers such as William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Charles Dickens; and he illustrates what such reading can bring -- aesthetic pleasure, self-knowledge, and the lifetime companionship of the most intriguing and complex literary characters. Bloom's engaging prose and brilliant insights will send you hurrying back to old favorites and entice you to discover new ones. His ultimate faith in the restorative power of literature resonates on every page of this infinitely rewarding and important book.

About the Author

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, and Berg Professor of English at New York University. His more than twenty books include Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, The Book of J and The Anxiety of Influence.