Последние издания книг Харольда Блума

«Западный канон» — самая известная и, наверное, самая полемическая книга Гарольда Блума (р. 1930), Стерлингского профессора Йельского университета, знаменитого американского критика и литературоведа. Блум страстно защищает автономность эстетической ценности и необходимость канона перед лицом «Школы ресентимента» — тех культурных тенденций, которые со времен первой публикации книги (1994) стали практически непререкаемыми. Развивая сформулированные в других своих книгах концепции «страха влияния» и «творческого искажения», Блум рассказывает о двадцати шести главных авторах Западного мира (от Данте до Толстого, от Гёте до Беккета, от Дикинсон…

«Западный канон» — самая известная и, наверное, самая полемическая книга Гарольда Блума (р. 1930), Стерлингского профессора Йельского университета, знаменитого американского критика и литературоведа. Блум страстно защищает автономность эстетической ценности и необходимость канона перед лицом «Школы ресентимента» — тех культурных тенденций, которые со времен первой публикации книги (1994) стали практически непререкаемыми. Развивая сформулированные в других своих книгах концепции «страха влияния» и «творческого искажения», Блум рассказывает о двадцати шести главных авторах Западного мира (от Данте до Толстого, от Гёте до Беккета, от Дикинсон…

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"Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it", writes Harold Bloom in THE ANATOMY OF INFLUENCE, "is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate". For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of the written word with students and readers. In this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads us through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years. The result is "a critical self-portrait", a sustained meditation on a life lived with and through the great works of the Western canon: Why has influence been my lifelong obsessive concern? Why have certain writers found me and not others? What is the end of a literary life? Featuring extended analyses of Bloom's most cherished poets - Shakespeare, Whitman, and Crane - as well as inspired appreciations of Emerson, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Ashbery, and others, THE ANATOMY OF INFLUENCE adapts Bloom's classic work "The Anxiety of Influence" to show us what great literature is, how it comes to be, and why it matters. Each chapter maps startling new literary connections that suddenly seem inevitable once Bloom has shown us how to listen and to read. A fierce and intimate appreciation of the art of literature on a scale that the author will not again attempt, THE ANATOMY OF INFLUENCE follows the sublime works it studies, inspiring the reader with a sense of something ever more about to be.

"Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it," writes Harold Bloom in The Anatomy of Influence, "is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate."

For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of the written word with students and readers. In this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads us through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years. The result is "a critical self-portrait," a sustained meditation on a life lived with and through the great works of the Western canon: Why has influence been my lifelong obsessive concern? Why have certain writers found me and not others? What is the end of a literary life?

Featuring extended analyses of Bloom's most cherished poets—Shakespeare, Whitman, and Crane—as well as inspired appreciations of Emerson, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Ashbery, and others, The Anatomy of Influence adapts Bloom's classic work The Anxiety of Influence to show us what great literature is, how it comes to be, and why it matters. Each chapter maps startling new literary connections that suddenly seem inevitable once Bloom has shown us how to listen and to read. A fierce and intimate appreciation of the art of literature on a scale that the author will not again attempt, The Anatomy of Influence follows the sublime works it studies, inspiring the reader with a sense of something ever more about to be.

Shakespeare's seven great tragedies contain unmistakable elements that set them apart from any other plays ever written.

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare embodied in the character of Juliet the world's most impressive representation ever of a woman in love. With Julius Caesar, the great playwright produced a drama of astonishing and perpetual relevance. In Hamlet, Shakespeare created a character with the most brilliant mind in all of literature. And the character of Iago in Othello has been the very archetype of the villain ever since. King Lear presents audiences with unparalleled emotional and intellectual demands. Macbeth is a play of ruthless economy in which Shakespeare forces his audience into intimate sympathy with a man not far from being a mass murderer. Finally, in Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare created something entirely new: a vast political and historical conspectus involving the whole world.

Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" climaxes in the very first line - the protagonist has indeed been transformed. The critical questions lie in the interpretation of the transformation. Kafka has been said to have offered everything from a psychological parable of the Oedipal struggle to a caricature of psychological readings. In this collection of new critical essays, Kafka's life and other works are featured as well as notes on the essay contributors.

Західний канон: книги на тлі епох - книга Гарольда Блума присвячена канонічним творам Західної літератури. Разом з "Страх впливу" цей твір є найвідомішою книгою автора, який став бестселером в США. Блум захищає поняття Західного канону зосереджуючись на аналізі 26 авторів, яких він вважає найважливішими:
Вільям Шекспір
Данте Аліґ'єрі
Джеффрі Чосер
Мігель де Сервантес
Мішель де Монтень
Мольєр
Джон Мілтон
Семюел Джонсон
Йоганн Вольфганг фон Гете
Вільям Вордсворт
Джейн Остін
Волт Вітмен
Емілі Дікінсон
Чарлз Діккенс
Джордж Еліот
Толстой Лев Миколайович
Генрік Ібсен
Зигмунд Фрейд
Марсель Пруст
Джеймс Джойс
Вірджинія Вулф
Франц Кафка
Хорхе Луїс Борхес
Пабло Неруда
Фернанду Пессоа
Семюел Беккет

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This controversial, bestselling collaboration is a translation of and critical look at text within Genesis, Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy written by an ostensibly female author known only as "J."

New Ed edition

Harold Bloom, whose provocative The Western Canon changed the way we look at the classics, now seeks to define the particular genius of 100 great minds, ranging from Socrates and St. Paul to Hart Crane and Federico García Lorca. Clustering these literary thinkers in groups of five (e.g., Dickens, Dostoevsky, Babel, Celan, Ellison), Bloom illuminates his subjects without historicizing them. His insights into writers and individual works reveal Bloom's own critical genius at work. The essay on Franz Kafka, for example, evidences Bloom's half-century-long encounter with the Czech author's oeuvre. Bloom enthusiasts will be pleased, too, by his spirited digressions on the blight of academic Groupthink and the distortions of postmodern cultural studies.

Book DescriptionIn print for twenty-seven years, A Map of Misreading serves as a companion volume to Bloom's other seminal work, The Anxiety of Influence. In this finely crafted text, Bloom offers instruction in how to read a poem, using his theory

A critical overview of the work features the writings of Terry Southern, William S. Doxey, Jerome Klinkowitz, Richard Giannone, John L. Simons, James Lundquist, and other scholars.

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when faster and easier electronic media threatens 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. His ultimate faith in the restorative power of literature resonates on every page of this infinitely rewarding and important book.

"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, "New York Review of Books" A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human "is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic-and ultimate authority on the western literary tradition-Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly illuminating each work with unrivaled warmth, wit and insight. At the same time, Bloom presents one of the boldest theses of Shakespearean scholarships: that Shakespeare not only invented the English language, but also created human nature as we know it today.

This volume is designed to present biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, and 'The Secret Sharer.' Following Harold Bloom's introduction, there appears a detailed biography of the author, discussing the major events in his life and his important literary works. Then follows a thematic and structural analysis of the works, in which significant themes, patterns, and motifs are traced. An annotated list of characters supplies brief information on the chief characters in the works.

Издание является первым полным русским переводом двух книг американского литературоведа Хэролда Блума, представляющих собой изложение оснований созданной им теории поэзии, в соответствии с которой развитие поэзии происходит вследствие борьбы поэтов со своими предшественниками.

Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New Historicism. Insisting instead upon "the autonomy of the aesthetic," Bloom places Shakespeare at the center of the Western Canon. Shakespeare has become the touchstone for all writers who come before and after him, whether playwrights poets or storytellers. In the creation of character, Bloom maintains, Shakespeare has no true precursor and has left no one after him untouched. Milton, Samuel Johnson, Goethe, Ibsen, Joyce, and Beckett were all indebted to him; Tolstoy and Freud rebelled against him; and Dante, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens, Whitman, Dickinson, Proust, the modern Hispanic and Portuguese writers Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa are exquisite examples of how canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. Bloom concludes this provocative, trenchant work with a complete list of essential writers and books - his vision of the Canon.

Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Iliad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by Freud, Kafka, and Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. This is criticism at its best.