02653nam 2200613Ia 450 991045444760332120200520144314.00-674-02310-210.4159/9780674023109(CKB)1000000000729178(SSID)ssj0000342560(PQKBManifestationID)11247805(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342560(PQKBWorkID)10286837(PQKB)10927737(MiAaPQ)EBC3300123(Au-PeEL)EBL3300123(CaPaEBR)ebr10313839(OCoLC)877174619(DE-B1597)571763(DE-B1597)9780674023109(EXLCZ)99100000000072917819890216d1989 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRuin the sacred truths[electronic resource] poetry and belief from the Bible to the present /Harold BloomCambridge, MA Harvard University Pressc1989204 pThe Charles Eliot Norton lectures ;1987-88"This book consists of an expanded text of the 1987-88 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University ."0-674-78027-2 0-674-78028-0 Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I THE HEBREW BIBLE -- II FROM HOMER TO DANTE -- III SHAKESPEARE -- IV MILTON -- V ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISM -- VI FREUD AND BEYONDHarold 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.Charles Eliot Norton lectures ;1987-1988.CriticismCanon (Literature)History and criticismPoetryHistory and criticismElectronic books.Criticism.Canon (Literature)History and criticism.PoetryHistory and criticism.809.1Bloom Harold164457MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454447603321Ruin the sacred truths1350119UNINA