Ruin the sacred truths : poetry and belief from the Bible to the present / Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1987-1988.

The Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1987-88

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Canon (Literature)--History and criticism.

Canon (Literature).

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, c1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Harold 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

I THE HEBREW BIBLE

II FROM HOMER TO DANTE

III SHAKESPEARE

IV MILTON

V ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISM

VI FREUD AND BEYOND

Notes:

"This book consists of an expanded text of the 1987-88 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University ."

ISBN:

9780674023109

0674023102

OCLC:

877174619