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Shakespeare: Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom

Shakespeare: Invention of the Human

By Harold Bloom

By Harold Bloom

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Paperback $28.00

Sep 01, 1999 | ISBN 9781573227513

Shakespeare: Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
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Sep 01, 1999 | ISBN 9781573227513

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About Shakespeare: Invention of the Human

“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 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.

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About Harold Bloom

HAROLD BLOOM is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than forty books include The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, The American Religion, and The Daemon… More about Harold Bloom

Product Details

Category: Literary Criticism | Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs

Paperback | $28.00
Published by Riverhead Books
Sep 01, 1999 | 768 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9781573227513

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Praise

“The most original literary critic in America.” —The New York Times

“No critic in the English language since Samuel Johnson has been more prolific.” –-The Paris Review

“Bloom is all literature, (he) positively lives it.” –Alfred Kazin

Awards

ALA Notable Book WINNER

National Book Award WINNER

National Book Critics Circle Awards WINNER

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