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: Manfred Brauch
Publisher: IVP Academic
Keywords: bible, misreading, consequences, scripture, abusing
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 2009-03-17
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0830825797
ISBN-13: 9780830825790

Virtually all Christians recognize the centrality of the Bible to their faith. Yet many Christians misquote and misapply Scripture regularly. Often those who are most passionate about the authority of the Bible are at the greatest loss when it comes to understanding its message clearly and applying it faithfully. Professor Manfred Brauch believes this kind of mistaken interpretation and application of Scripture is a detriment to the integrity of our Christian witness and contributes to profound misunderstandings in Christian belief and practice. In this practical book written with the non-s