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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a tiny skew to the binding, a light bump to upper corner of rear cover, and a hint of faint shelfwear to spine ends, otherwise a solid, tight, clean VG+ copy in a like dust jacket which has a small bump to upper rear corner, a hint of shelfwear to spine ends, and some very faint rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Our foremost literary critic celebrates the American pantheon of great writers from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, to Ursula K. LeGuin, Philip Roth, and Thomas Pynchon.Our foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O'Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth.No critic has better understood the ways writers influence one another-how literary traditions are made-and no writer has helped readers understand this better, than Harold Bloom. Over the course of a remarkable sixty-year career, in such bestselling books asThe Western Canon,Shakespeare- The Invention of the Human, andHow to Read and Why, Bloom brought enormous insight and infectious enthusiasm to the great writers of the Western tradition, from Shakespeare and Cervantes to the British Romantics and the Russian masters. Now, for the first time, comes a collection of his brilliant writings about the American tradition, the ultimate guide to our nation's literature.Assembled with DavidMikics(Slow Reading in a Hurried Age), this unprecedented collection gathers five decades' worth of Bloom's writings- much of it hard to find and long unavailable-including essays, occasional pieces, and introductions as well as excerpts from his books. It offers deep readings of 47 essential American writers, reflecting on the surprising ways they have influenced each other across more than two centuries. The story it tells, of American literature as a recurring artistic struggle for selfhood, speaks to the passion and power of the American spirit.All of the visionary American writers who have long preoccupied BloomEmerson and Whitman, Hawthorne and Melville, and Dickinson, Faulkner, Crane, Frost, Stevens, and Bishopmake their appearance inThe American Canon, along with Hemingway, James, O'Connor, Ellison, Hurston, LeGuin,Ashberyand many others. Bloom's passion for these classic writers is contagious, and he reminds readers how they have shaped our sense of who we are, and how they can summon us to be better versions of ourselves. Bloom,Mikicswrites, "is still our most inspirational critic, still the man who can enlighten us by telling us to read as if our lives depended on it- Because, he insists, they do."For readers who want to deepen their appreciation of American literature, there's no better place to start than The American Canon. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st printing. 426pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "Harold Bloom is our greatest student of literature, 'a colossus among critics' (The New York Times) and a 'master entertainer' (Newsweek). Over the course of a remarkable career spanning more than half a century, in his landmark studies The Anxiety of Influence, A Map of Misreading, The Western Canon and Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Bloom has transformed the way we look at the masterworks of western literature. Now comes a collection that promises to do the same for American literature, revealing the surprising ways forty-seven essential American writers have influenced each other across more than two centuries. [] Assembled by David Mikics, this unprecedented collection gathers five decades of writing--much of it hard to find and long unavailable--woven together into a compelling portrait of American literary genius. Always a champion of visionary power, Bloom tells the story of our national literature in terms of Emerson's inescapable influence on all subsequent American authors and the peculiarly American thirst for the fully awakened self. 'Emerson bet the American house (as it were) on self-reliance,' Bloom writes. A mixed inheritance, it has given us Moby-Dick and Wallace Stevens's 'The Auroras of Autumn,' but is can also lead to extremism. 'Contemporary America is too dangerous to be laughed away,' Bloom observes, 'and I turn to its most powerful writers in order to see if we remain coherent enough for imaginative comprehension.' [] Bloom's enthusiasm for American literature is contagious. He reminds us how our most indispensable writers have shaped our sense of who we are, and how they can summon us to be better versions of ourselves. As Mikics writes, Bloom 'is still our most inspirational critic, still the man who can enlighten us by telling us to read as if our lives depended on it: because, he insists, they do.'" [jacket copy] "Ambitious, authoritative, and certainly arguable, Bloom's compendium is an achievement of immense use and interest to literature students and general readers alike."--Publishers Weekly. "He stands for a rare intellectual purity, being not only a kind of shaggy saint in his devotion to literature but also a gadfly, a doomsayer and a great teacher."--Michael Dirda, The Wall Street Journal. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, perfect & quite presentable.

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Our foremost literary critic celebrates the American pantheon of great writers from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, to Ursula K. LeGuin, Philip Roth, and Thomas Pynchon.Our foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O'Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth.No critic has better understood the ways writers influence one another-how literary traditions are made-and no writer has helped readers understand this better, than Harold Bloom. Over the course of a remarkable sixty-year career, in such bestselling books asThe Western Canon,Shakespeare- The Invention of the Human, andHow to Read and Why, Bloom brought enormous insight and infectious enthusiasm to the great writers of the Western tradition, from Shakespeare and Cervantes to the British Romantics and the Russian masters. Now, for the first time, comes a collection of his brilliant writings about the American tradition, the ultimate guide to our nation's literature.Assembled with DavidMikics(Slow Reading in a Hurried Age), this unprecedented collection gathers five decades' worth of Bloom's writings- much of it hard to find and long unavailable-including essays, occasional pieces, and introductions as well as excerpts from his books. It offers deep readings of 47 essential American writers, reflecting on the surprising ways they have influenced each other across more than two centuries. The story it tells, of American literature as a recurring artistic struggle for selfhood, speaks to the passion and power of the American spirit.All of the visionary American writers who have long preoccupied BloomEmerson and Whitman, Hawthorne and Melville, and Dickinson, Faulkner, Crane, Frost, Stevens, and Bishopmake their appearance inThe American Canon, along with Hemingway, James, O'Connor, Ellison, Hurston, LeGuin,Ashberyand many others. Bloom's passion for these classic writers is contagious, and he reminds readers how they have shaped our sense of who we are, and how they can summon us to be better versions of ourselves. Bloom,Mikicswrites, "is still our most inspirational critic, still the man who can enlighten us by telling us to read as if our lives depended on it- Because, he insists, they do."For readers who want to deepen their appreciation of American literature, there's no better place to start than The American Canon. 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. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 426 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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