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A book by American literary critic on the uses of deep reading. How to Read and Why is Bloom's manifesto for the preponderance of written culture.
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A new book by America's leading literary critic on the uses of deep reading. Practical, inspirational and learned, How to Read and Why is Bloom's manifesto for the preponderance of written culture.In the vastly influential The Western Canon, Harold Bloom outlined what we should read to understand a greater depth of the individual self. How to Read and Why continues the argument and focusses on how we use literature in order to gain deeper self-awareness. Poems, stories, novels, plays and parables are all analysed as forms of writing as immersion, the language of individuality and inwardness: Shakespeare's sonnets, the short stories of Hemingway and de Cervantes, the novels of Proust and Calvino, Sophocles's Oedipus Rex and Mark's Gospel. Harold Bloom also addresses the idea of why we read: increased individuality, respite from visual bombardment, a return to 'deep feeling' and 'deep thinking'.How to Read and Why is an essential book for any reader, an introduction to the world of written culture, an inspirational self-help book for students and teachers alike.
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A new book by an American literary critic, on the power of the written word. Has received good reviews in the broadsheet press.
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Harold Bloom, one of the great literary critics and champion of written culture, asserts that we read in order to better understand and fortify our sense of our own individuality. In this essential book he offers a reading list of works, some famous, some less well-known, that allows readers to fully explore dimensions of themselves. Practical, inspirational and learned, How to Read and Why reveals that the close reading and re-reading of great literature can sustain, enrich and strengthen every aspect of our own lives.
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Harold Bloom, one of the great literary critics and champion of written culture, asserts that we read in order to better understand and fortify our sense of our own individuality. In this essential book he offers a reading list of works, some famous, some less well-known, that allows readers to fully explore dimensions of themselves. Practical, inspirational and learned, How to Read and Why reveals that the close reading and re-reading of great literature can sustain, enrich and strengthen every aspect of our own lives.
Author Biography
Harold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than twenty-five books include THE BEST POEMS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE; GENIUS, HOW TO READ AND WHY, 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, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the International Prize of Catalonia, and the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico.
Review
'How to Read and Why ... is sensationally alert to the joys of reading; and practically every page has some useful insight, some energising challenge.' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'It would be possible to fill a review of Bloom's work with his own phrases, so prodical is he of insight . . . he is never less than memorable.' THE TIMES 'Bloom's love of great literature is contagious. It sent me off anew to Proust, to Flannery O'Connor, to Italo Calvino; and for the first time to many others.' GUARDIAN '...there is a very great deal of profit and enjoyment to be had from these pages" FINANCIAL TIMES 'Bloom is the kind of infuriating, eccentric and ultimately inspiring teacher that we all need. If you want a survey course of the best reading around start here.' SUNDAY HERALD
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The essential guide to enhancing self-awareness and personal growth through reading
Kirkus UK Review
The eminent American literary critic Bloom sets out here an apologia for the act of reading and a sample selection of short stories, novels and plays that will teach us to read deeply. Professor Bloom sees reading as completely personal and isolated, a way to mould, ground, strengthen and heal the individual through a lone encounter with the otherness of a great text. His selection includes both classics (Shakespeare, Dickens, Shelley) and recent works (Calvino, Borges, Pynchon, Toni Morrison). For each text, he writes a short commentary and traces lineages within the tradition. After a lifetime's reading, Bloom deliberately pragmatic approach means his commentaries come across as literal, anecdotal and occasionally meandering. His selection of writers - predominantly male, white and focused largely on the canon - is explained by his claim that universities have ceased to teach reading in favour of theory and ideology and now deny the potential reader the wholeness of an encounter with the tradition of great texts. In a society under siege to the mass media, Bloom sees his task as rescuing wisdom from the mass of mere information and stopping the books he loves and the skills required to read them becoming obsolete. The only drawback to Bloom's approach is that his view of culture in decline is not borne out by modern readers and their eclectic reading habits. This book would prove useful in reading groups or for anyone who wants a beginners' guide to what is worth reading. (Kirkus UK)
Long Description
A new book by America's leading literary critic on the uses of deep reading. Practical, inspirational and learned, How to Read and Why is Bloom's manifesto for the preponderance of written culture. In the vastly influential The Western Canon, Harold Bloom outlined what we should read to understand a greater depth of the individual self. How to Read and Why continues the argument and focusses on how we use literature in order to gain deeper self-awareness. Poems, stories, novels, plays and parables are all analysed as forms of writing as immersion, the language of individuality and inwardness: Shakespeare's sonnets, the short stories of Hemingway and de Cervantes, the novels of Proust and Calvino, Sophocles's Oedipus Rex and Mark's Gospel. Harold Bloom also addresses the idea of why we read: increased individuality, respite from visual bombardment, a return to 'deep feeling' and 'deep thinking'. How to Read and Why is an essential book for any reader, an introduction to the world of written culture, an inspirational self-help book for students and teachers alike.
Review Quote
'How to Read and Why... is sensationally alert to the joys of reading; and practically every page has some useful insight, some energising challenge.' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'It would be possible to fill a review of Bloom's work with his own phrases, so prodical is he of insight... he is never less than memorable.' THE TIMES 'Bloom's love of great literature is contagious. It sent me off anew to Proust, to Flannery O'Connor, to Italo Calvino; and for the first time to many others.' GUARDIAN '...there is a very great deal of profit and enjoyment to be had from these pages" FINANCIAL TIMES 'Bloom is the kind of infuriating, eccentric and ultimately inspiring teacher that we all need. If you want a survey course of the best reading around start here.' SUNDAY HERALD
Feature
* An essential self-help book for all serious readers * A polemical and controversial manifesto for the power of written culture. * Harold Bloom is one of the most respected literary critics in the world and the author of numerous books including: Omens of the Millenium, The Western Canon and Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human. * Assured of intense and extensive review coverage * This book will form the heart of a public debate on the importance of reading
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A new book by America's leading literary critic on the uses of deep reading. Practical, inspirational and learned, How to Read and Why is Bloom's manifesto for the preponderance of written culture. In the vastly influential The Western Canon, Harold Bloom outlined what we should read to understand a greater depth of the individual self. How to Read and Why continues the argument and focusses on how we use literature in order to gain deeper self-awareness. Poems, stories, novels, plays and parables are all analysed as forms of writing as immersion, the language of individuality and inwardness: Shakespeare's sonnets, the short stories of Hemingway and de Cervantes, the novels of Proust and Calvino, Sophocles's Oedipus Rex and Mark's Gospel. Harold Bloom also addresses the idea of why we read: increased individuality, respite from visual bombardment, a return to 'deep feeling' and 'deep thinking'. How to Read and Why is an essential book for any reader, an introduction to the world of written culture, an inspirational self-help book for students and teachers alike. * An essential self-help book for all serious readers * A polemical and controversial manifesto for the power of written culture. * Harold Bloom is one of the most respected literary critics in the world and the author of numerous books including: Omens of the Millenium, The Western Canon and Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human. * Assured of intense and extensive review coverage * This book will form the heart of a public debate on the importance of reading
Details ISBN1841150398 Author Harold Bloom Pages 288 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Year 2001 ISBN-10 1841150398 ISBN-13 9781841150390 Format Paperback Imprint Fourth Estate Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 801.3 Media Book Publication Date 2001-09-03 Language English UK Release Date 2001-09-03 Alternative 9780007404742 Audience General AU Release Date 2001-09-02 NZ Release Date 2001-10-24 We've got this
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