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Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

By Harold Bloom

Book information

Year
1991
ISBN
0674780280, 9780674780286, 0674780272, 9780674780279
LCC
PN1077 .B55 1989
Open Library ID
OL2044708M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7335578 bytes)
Pages
214\218
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Iliad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by Freud, Kafka, and Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. This is criticism at its best.

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