Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the PresentHarold 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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... close reading and improving students' comprehension of complex texts. You will learn how to teach close reading based on text type, how to transition students through increasingly challenging texts, and how to use close reading as a ...
... close reading and improving students' comprehension of complex texts. You will learn how to teach close reading based on text type, how to transition students through increasingly challenging texts, and how to use close reading as a ...
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... close reading a decade ago. Using terms especially germane to modernist studies, she prompts us to wonder what the value of close reading might ultimately be for rethinking the condition of a field that has fostered it. Instead of ...
... close reading a decade ago. Using terms especially germane to modernist studies, she prompts us to wonder what the value of close reading might ultimately be for rethinking the condition of a field that has fostered it. Instead of ...
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... close or poten- tially close relationships ( Schwartz & Shaver , 1987 ; Shaver et al . , 1987 ) . Feelings of grief and loneliness often accompany these events . Similarly , depression , which generally is more stable and intense than ...
... close or poten- tially close relationships ( Schwartz & Shaver , 1987 ; Shaver et al . , 1987 ) . Feelings of grief and loneliness often accompany these events . Similarly , depression , which generally is more stable and intense than ...
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Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present Harold Bloom Limited preview - 1991 |
Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present Harold Bloom Limited preview - 1991 |
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