Bloom's literary themes. The taboo / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Blake Hobby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Hobby, Blake.

Series:

Bloom's Literary Themes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taboo in literature.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Other Title:

Taboo

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From a Polynesian word meaning 'prohibition', a taboo is a social more that should not be broken by society's participants, for doing so can mean punishment. This book discusses the role of the taboo in ""Howl"", ""Lolita"", ""Lord of the Flies"", ""The Miller's Tale"", and many more works.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Series Introduction; Volume Introduction; Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Thomas De Quincey); Dracula (Bram Stoker); Howl (Allen Ginsberg); Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare); Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence); Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov); Lord of the Flies (William Golding); ""The Miller's Tale"" (Geoffrey Chaucer); ""the mother"" (Gwendolyn Brooks); Mourning Becomes Electra (Eugene O'Neill); Oedipus Tyrannus (Sophocles); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde); The Poetry and Prose of Sylvia Plath; ""A Rose for Emily"" (William Faulkner)

Sabbath's Theater (Philip Roth)The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie); The Poetry of Anne Sexton; The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift; Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy); Ulysses (James Joyce); Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4381-3105-4

OCLC:

609858513