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Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

By: Bloom, Harold

Price: $8.00

Publisher: RIVERHEAD: Mar-14

Seller ID: 65535

ISBN: 1573222844

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this inspiring book, Harold Bloom, our preeminent literary critic, takes us from the Bible to twentieth-century writing, searching for the ways in which literature can inform our lives. Through comparisons of the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes; Plato and Homer; Cervantes and Shakespeare; Montaigne and Bacon; Johnson and Goethe; Emerson and Nietzsche; Freud and Proust; and finally a discussion of the Gospel of Thomas and St. Augustine, "Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?" distills for us the various-and even contrary-forms of wisdom that have shaped our thinking.
For anyone who reads to find me...
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Epic

By: Bloom, Harold

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 385728

ISBN: 1582882010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

By: Bloom, Harold

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Jun-13

Seller ID: 457378

ISBN: 195112210

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

By: Harold Bloom

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover: Oct-98

Seller ID: 103551

ISBN: 1573221201

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of Harold Bloom's life's work in reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. It is his passionate and convincing analysis of the way in which Shakespeare not merely represented human nature as we know it today, but actually created it: before Shakespeare, there was characterization; after Shakespeare, there was character, men and women with highly individual personalities -- Hamlet, Falstaff, Iago, Cleopatra, Macbeth, Rosalind, and Lear, among them. In making his argument, Bloom leads us through a brilliant and comprehensive read...
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

By: Harold Bloom

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Riverhead Books: Sep-99

Seller ID: 436359

ISBN: 157322751X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"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, this book 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...
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

By: Harold Bloom

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Riverhead Books: Sep-99

Seller ID: 465866

ISBN: 157322751X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"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, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare.

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

By: Harold Bloom

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Riverhead Books: Sep-99

Seller ID: 487726

ISBN: 157322751X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"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, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare.