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Ruin the sacred truths : poetry and belief from the Bible to the present / Harold Bloom.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1987-1988.Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1989.Description: 1 online resource (204 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674023109
  • 0674023102
  • 0674780280
  • 9780674780286
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ruin the sacred truths.DDC classification:
  • 809.1 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1077 .B55 1989eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
The Hebrew Bible -- From Homer to Dante -- Shakespeare -- Milton -- Englightenment and romanticism -- Freud and beyond.
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  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)282738

The Hebrew Bible -- From Homer to Dante -- Shakespeare -- Milton -- Englightenment and romanticism -- Freud and beyond.

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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.