How to read and why
by Harold Bloom
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"Bloom instructs readers in how to immerse themselves in the different literary forms.".
"Probing discussions of the works of writers such as William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, and William Faulkner highlight the varied challenges and delights found in short stories, poems, novels, and plays.
Bloom not only provides guidance on how to read a text but also illustrates what such reading can bring - aesthetic pleasure, increased individuality and self-knowledge, and the lifetime companionship of the most engaging and complex literary characters."--BOOK JACKET.
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Literature, History and criticism, Modern Literature, Appreciation, Literature, Modern, Study and teaching, Reading, Literature, Modern -- Appreciation, Literature, Modern -- Study and teaching, Literature, Modern -- History and criticism, Canons littéraires, Letterkunde, Lektüre, Books and reading, Modernism in literature, Weltliteratur, Livres et lecture, New York Times reviewed, Literature, modern, history and criticism| Edition | Availability |
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How to read and why
2001, Touchstone Books, Scribner
in English
- 1st Touchtone ed.
0684859076 9780684859071
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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. Always dazzling in his ability to draw connections between texts across continents and centuries, Bloom instructs readers in how to immerse themselves in the different literary forms. Bloom not only provides illuminating guidance on how to read a text but also illustrates what such reading can bring -- aesthetic pleasure, increased individuality and self-knowledge, and the lifetime companionship of the most engaging and complex literary characters. -- From publisher's description.
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