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Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present
Harold Bloom
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Paperback. Winner of the Christian Gauss Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1989, this surveys the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. In doing so, Bloom concludes that our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
Series
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674780286
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V9780674780286
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Reviews for Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present
Bloom’s puissance is not entirely his own; for some of it, he is indebted to Nietzsche, Freud, Schopenhauer, Gershom Scholem, and other masters. But enough of it is his own to constitute a distinctive form of splendor.
Denis Donoghue
New York Review of Books
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Denis Donoghue
New York Review of Books
In some ways the wildest of the wild men (and women), in some ... Read more