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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human Trade paperback - 1999

by Harold Bloom

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  • Title Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
  • Author Harold Bloom
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 768
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Riverhead Books, New York
  • Date September 1999
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 87698
  • ISBN 9781573227513 / 157322751X
  • Weight 2.11 lbs (0.96 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.18 x 6.15 x 2 in (23.32 x 15.62 x 5.08 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Characters and characteristics in literature, Shakespeare, William - Criticism and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98021325
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.33

Summary

"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books

A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic-and ultimate authority on the western literary tradition-Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly illuminating each work with unrivaled warmth, wit and insight. At the same time, Bloom presents one of the boldest theses of Shakespearean scholarships: that Shakespeare not only invented the English language, but also created human nature as we know it today.

From the publisher

Harold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. As The Paris Review has pointed out, "no critic in the English language since Samuel Johnson has been more prolific." His more than thirty books include The Best Poems of the English Language, The Art of Reading Poetry, and The Book of J. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the International Prize of Catalonia, and the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico.

Alfred Kazin has said, "Bloom is all literature, (he) positively lives it," and The New York Times called him "the most original literary critic in America." He lives in New Haven and New York.

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From the rear cover

A landmark achievement -- expansive, erudite, and passionate -- Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly illuminating each work with unrivaled warmth, wit, and insight. At the same time, Bloom presents one of the boldest theses of Shakespearean scholarship -- that Shakespeare not only reinvented the English language, but also created human nature as we know it today.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 01/01/2014, Page 50
  • New York Times, 09/26/1999, Page 32
  • Newsweek, 12/06/2004, Page 90

About the author

Harold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than thirty books include The Best Poems of the English Language, The Art of Reading Poetry, and The Book of J. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the International Prize of Catalonia, and the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico. He lives in New Haven and New York.