Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Keywords: critical, views, modern, bloom’s, american, writers, asian
Number of Pages: 219
Published: 2009-02
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1604134011
ISBN-13: 9781604134018

Identity and belonging are just two of the many themes Asian-American writers have explored. This new edition in the "Bloom’s Modern Critical Views" series offers fresh critical evaluations of this important body of American literature. Canonical writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan are discussed in addition to the voices and traditions that have emerged from the United States’ diverse South and East Asian communities. This volume is complemented by a chronology, a bibliography, notes on the contributors, and an introductory essay from master scholar Harold Bloom.

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Chelsea House Publicatio
Keywords: critical, views, modern, bloom, wilde, oscar
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1604138815
ISBN-13: 9781604138818

Oscar Wilde engages and fascinates his readers with his ability to make use of compatible contraries. Study some of his most important works, including The Importance of Being Earnest and Salome. This title, Oscar Wilde, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Oscar Wilde through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Oscar Wilde, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: preface, new, misreading, map
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-05-15
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0195162218
ISBN-13: 9780195162219

In 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 that patterns of imagery in poems represent both a response to and a defense against the influence of precursor poems. Influence, as Bloom conceives it, means that there are no texts, but only relationships between texts. Bloom discusses British and American poets including Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, W

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: criticism, essays, consciousness, romanticism
Number of Pages: 405
Published: 1970-09-01
List price: $24.85
ISBN-10: 0393099547
ISBN-13: 9780393099546

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Chelsea House Publicatio
Keywords: poets, major, bloom, frost, robert
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 1998-11-01
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0791051056
ISBN-13: 9780791051054

Bloom considers Frost a "severe poet, savage and original in his primal vision." This edition of Bloom looks at Frost’s "The Death of the Hired Man," "The Oven Bird" and "Birches," "Design," and "Directive." This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. History’s greatest poets are covered in one series with expert analysis by Harold Bloom and other critics. These texts offer a wealth of information on the poets and their works that are most commonly rea

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Chelsea House Publicatio
Keywords: critical, views, modern, bloom, brooks, gwendolyn
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0791056562
ISBN-13: 9780791056561

The poet’s work is analyzed by Langston Hughes, D.H. Melhem, Maria K. Mootry, and others. This title, Gwendolyn Brooks, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Gwendolyn Brooks through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Gwendolyn Brooks, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Keywords: critical, views, modern, bloom, milton, john
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 2003-10
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0791076571
ISBN-13: 9780791076576

Written just after the Restoration period in England, Milton’s blank verse epic, Paradise Lost, dramatized man’s "fortunate fall" from grace and earned him a permanent place in the canon. This title, John Milton, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of John Milton through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on John Milton, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale Univ