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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Bloom still controversial,
This review is from: Harold Bloom's Shakespeare (Paperback)
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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Harold Bloom's Shakespeare by Christy Desmet (Hardcover - January 12, 2002)
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