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American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon by Harold BLOOM (2019, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherLibrary of America, T.H.E.

ISBN-101598536400

ISBN-139781598536409

eBay Product ID (ePID)10038386229

Product Key Features

Book TitleAmerican Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon

Number of Pages436 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAmerican / General, Essays, Books & Reading

Publication Year2019

GenreLiterary Criticism, Literary Collections

AuthorHarold Bloom

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight25.3 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2019-944549

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"A deep consideration of significant American writers, from Emerson to Pynchon...An erudite tour of the American literary landscape from one of its most important observers." --Kirkus Reviews "Ambitious, authoritative, and certainly arguable, Bloom's compendium is an achievement of immense use and interest to literature students and general readers alike." -- Publishers Weekly, "A deep consideration of significant American writers, from Emerson to Pynchon...An erudite tour of the American literary landscape from one of its most important observers." --Kirkus Reviews "Ambitious, authoritative, and certainly arguable, Bloom's compendium is an achievement of immense use and interest to literature students and general readers alike." -- Publishers Weekly "He stands for a rare intellectual purity, being not only a kind of shaggy saint in his devotion to literature but also ... a gadfly, a doomsayer and a great teacher." --Michael Dirda, The Wall Street Journal "...an impressive and important look at what he sees as the core of American literature." --PopMatters.com, "A deep consideration of significant American writers, from Emerson to Pynchon...An erudite tour of the American literary landscape from one of its most important observers." --Kirkus Reviews

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Dewey Decimal810.9

SynopsisAmerica's foremost literary critic celebrates the American pantheon of great writers from Walt Whitman to Ralph Ellison, to Ursula K. LeGuin, Philip Roth, and more., Our foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O'Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth. No critic has better understood the ways writers influence one another-how literary traditions are made-and no writer has helped readers understand this better, than Harold Bloom. Over the course of a remarkable sixty-year career, in such bestselling books as The Western Canon , Shakespeare- The Invention of the Human , and How to Read and Why , Bloom brought enormous insight and infectious enthusiasm to the great writers of the Western tradition, from Shakespeare and Cervantes to the British Romantics and the Russian masters. Now, for the first time, comes a collection of his brilliant writings about the American tradition, the ultimate guide to our nation's literature. Assembled with DavidMikics( Slow Reading in a Hurried Age ), this unprecedented collection gathers five decades' worth of Bloom's writings- much of it hard to find and long unavailable-including essays, occasional pieces, and introductions as well as excerpts from his books. It offers deep readings of 47 essential American writers, reflecting on the surprising ways they have influenced each other across more than two centuries. The story it tells, of American literature as a recurring artistic struggle for selfhood, speaks to the passion and power of the American spirit. All of the visionary American writers who have long preoccupied BloomEmerson and Whitman, Hawthorne and Melville, and Dickinson, Faulkner, Crane, Frost, Stevens, and Bishopmake their appearance in The American Canon , along with Hemingway, James, O'Connor, Ellison, Hurston, LeGuin,Ashberyand many others. Bloom's passion for these classic writers is contagious, and he reminds readers how they have shaped our sense of who we are, and how they can summon us to be better versions of ourselves. Bloom,Mikicswrites, "is still our most inspirational critic, still the man who can enlighten us by telling us to read as if our lives depended on it- Because, he insists, they do." For readers who want to deepen their appreciation of American literature, there's no better place to start than The American Canon ., Our foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O'Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth. No critic has better understood the ways writers influence one another--how literary traditions are made--and no writer has helped readers understand this better, than Harold Bloom. Over the course of a remarkable sixty-year career, in such bestselling books as The Western Canon , Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human , and How to Read and Why , Bloom brought enormous insight and infectious enthusiasm to the great writers of the Western tradition, from Shakespeare and Cervantes to the British Romantics and the Russian masters. Now, for the first time, comes a collection of his brilliant writings about the American tradition, the ultimate guide to our nation's literature. Assembled with David Mikics ( Slow Reading in a Hurried Age ), this unprecedented collection gathers five decades' worth of Bloom's writings-- much of it hard to find and long unavailable--including essays, occasional pieces, and introductions as well as excerpts from his books. It offers deep readings of 47 essential American writers, reflecting on the surprising ways they have influenced each other across more than two centuries. The story it tells, of American literature as a recurring artistic struggle for selfhood, speaks to the passion and power of the American spirit. All of the visionary American writers who have long preoccupied BloomEmerson and Whitman, Hawthorne and Melville, and Dickinson, Faulkner, Crane, Frost, Stevens, and Bishopmake their appearance in The American Canon , along with Hemingway, James, O'Connor, Ellison, Hurston, Le Guin, Ashbery and many others. Bloom's passion for these classic writers is contagious, and he reminds readers how they have shaped our sense of who we are, and how they can summon us to be better versions of ourselves. Bloom, Mikics writes, "is still our most inspirational critic, still the man who can enlighten us by telling us to read as if our lives depended on it: Because, he insists, they do." For readers who want to deepen their appreciation of American literature, there's no better place to start than The American Canon .

LC Classification NumberPS201.B566 2019