Harold Bloom is one of the most influential—and controversial—of contemporary Shakespeare critics. These essays examine the sources and impact of his Shakespearean criticism. Through focused and sustained study of this writer as literary icon and his Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, the essays address a wide range of issues, from the cultural role of Shakespeare to the ethics of literary theory and criticism.
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Bloom's exhaustive examination of all of Shakespeare's plays, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, was published in 1998 to great critical acclaim and became a best seller, a rarity for a literary study. Bloom's veneration of the Bard and his dismissal of most contemporary Shakespearean criticism, however, has made him a target for scholars who do not share his opinions. This collection of 18 essays, which came about at a 2000 conference in Toronto of the Shakespeare Association of America, examines Bloom and his theories. Three of the articles praise Bloom's book, ten are opposed to most aspects of his work, and five are mixed. The essays run the gamut of present-day critical studies, ranging from historical and character perspectives to criticism with feminist or racial slants on individual plays or themes. Primarily for scholars who are fascinated by literary controversies, this book is recommended for graduate-level collections in academic libraries. Morris Hounion, New York City Technical Coll. Lib., Brooklyn
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Bloom still controversial,
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This anthology was recommended to me by someone who loved Bloom's huge book Shakespeare and the Invention of the Human. The recommender hadn't read it, but thought it would be a celebration of Bloom. It partly is, but mostly it takes up the controversy over Bloom's role in the literary reception of Shakespeare over the last twenty years. Most of the essays are very readable and enjoyable. Particularly good are essays by Hawkes, Fahmi, Desmet, and Charnes. Linda Charnes' concluding essay "The Two Percent Solution: what Harold Bloom forgot" is a knockout, a tour de force on what's wrong, and right, with Bloom, and with literary criticism in general these days. Anyone interested in the controversy over Bloom and the Bard would greatly enjoy reading through the essays in this book.
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The product of a self-confessed High Romantic Bardolator, Harold Bloom's massive Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human will be welcome reading to all true Shakespeareans. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Harold Bloom, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, Gary Taylor, New Historicism, Scene of Instruction, The Tempest, New York, Stella Dallas, New Historicist, Bloom's Shakespeare, Oxford Shakespeare, Chelsea House, High Romantic, King James, Samuel Johnson, Sir John, Christopher Marlowe, King Henry, Norton Shakespeare, Prince Hal, Reinventing Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, School of Resentment New!
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The product of a self-confessed High Romantic Bardolator, Harold Bloom's massive Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human will be welcome reading to all true Shakespeareans. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
character criticism, disguised duke, strong poet, moral perfectionism, fat knight, literary genealogy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Harold Bloom, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, Gary Taylor, New Historicism, Scene of Instruction, The Tempest, New York, Stella Dallas, New Historicist, Bloom's Shakespeare, Oxford Shakespeare, Chelsea House, High Romantic, King James, Samuel Johnson, Sir John, Christopher Marlowe, King Henry, Norton Shakespeare, Prince Hal, Reinventing Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, School of Resentment New!
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- Antony and Cleopatra (New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 5 pages
- Measure for Measure (Oxford World's Classics) by William Shakespeare on 4 pages
- Anxiety of Influence: Theory of Poetry by Harold Bloom on 4 pages
- Shakespeare and Appropriation (Accents on Shakespeare) by Christy Desmet on 4 pages
- Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Los Angeles, 1996 by Jonathan Bate on 4 pages
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