How To Read and Why

Bloom, Harold

ISBN 10: 0684859068 / ISBN 13: 9780684859064

Editore: Scribner, 2000

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Riassunto:

At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the renowned literary critic explores reasons for reading, offering inspirational analyses of seminal works of literature, and demonstrates the aesthetic pleasure reading can bring. 150,000 first printing.

Informazioni sull?autore: Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor of English at New York University, and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than twenty books include Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, The Book of J and The Anxiety of Influence. He is a MacArthur Prize fellow; a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the recipient of many awards, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Criticism, and he holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Rome and Bologna.

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Titolo: How To Read and Why
Casa editrice: Scribner
Data di pubblicazione: 2000
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Good