How to read and why

by Bloom, Harold

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"Bloom instructs readers in how to immerse themselves in the different literary forms." "Probing discussions of the works of writers such as William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, and William Faulkner highlight the varied challenges and delights found in short stories, poems, novels, and plays. Bloom not only provides guidance on how to read a text but also illustrates what such reading can bring - aesthetic pleasure, increased indivi…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :How to read and why / Harold Bloom.

Summary

"Bloom instructs readers in how to immerse themselves in the different literary forms." "Probing discussions of the works of writers such as William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, and William Faulkner highlight the varied challenges and delights found in short stories, poems, novels, and plays. Bloom not only provides guidance on how to read a text but also illustrates what such reading can bring - aesthetic pleasure, increased individuality and self-knowledge, and the lifetime companionship of the most engaging and complex literary characters."--Jacket

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2000.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Scribner
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2000.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (283 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • oclc:ocn679319349
  • LC Classification:LB1050
  • Dewey Decimal:028/.9

Table of Contents

Authors' names only: Short stories (Ivan Turgenev ; Anton Chekhov ; Guy de Maupassant ; Ernest Hemingway ; Flannery O'Connor ; Vladimir Nabokov ; Jorge Luis Borges ; Tommaso Landolfi ; Italo Calvino) -- Poems (A.E. Housman ; William Blake ; Walter Savage Landor ; Alfred Lord Tennyson ; Robert Browning ; Walt Whitman ; Emily Dickinson ; Emily Bronte ; William Shakespeare ; John Milton ;William Wordsworth ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; John Keats) -- Novels, Part I (Miguel de Cervantes ; Stendhal ; Jane Austen ; Charles Dickens ; Fyodor Dostoevsky ; Henry James ; Marcel Proust ; Thomas Mann).

Cont.: Plays (William Shakespeare ; Henrik Ibsen ; Oscar Wilde) -- Novels, Part II (Herman Melville ; William Faulkner ; Nathanael West ; Thomas Pynchon ; Cormac McCarthy ; Ralph Ellison ; Toni Morrison).

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Subjects

Canons littéraires Criticism, interpretation, etc Lecture Lektüre Letterkunde Literature -- Study and teaching Literature, Modern Literature, Modern -- Appreciation Literature, Modern -- History and criti… Littérature -- Étude et enseignement Livres et lecture Reading Weltliteratur

Writers

Bloom, Harold

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