Harold Bloom (1930–2019)
Autore di Il canone occidentale: i libri e le scuole delle età
Sull'Autore
Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930 in New York City. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell in 1951 and his Doctorate from Yale in 1955. After graduating from Yale, Bloom remained there as a teacher, and was made Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1983. Bloom's theories have changed the mostra altro way that critics think of literary tradition and has also focused his attentions on history and the Bible. He has written over twenty books and edited countless others. He is one of the most famous critics in the world and considered an expert in many fields. In 2010 he became a founding patron of Ralston College, a new institution in Savannah, Georgia, that focuses on primary texts. His works include Fallen Angels, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life and The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of The King James Bible. Harold Bloom passed away on October 14, 2019 in New Haven, at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Bloom has edited several books with the same title for different series. Combine with care.
Serie
Opere di Harold Bloom
Il genio: il senso dell'eccellenza attraverso le vite di cento individui non comuni (2002) 1,392 copie
Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1963) — A cura di — 389 copie
William Golding's Lord of the Flies (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1999) — A cura di — 331 copie
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) — A cura di — 257 copie
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume I: The Middle Ages through the Eighteenth Century (1973) — A cura di — 189 copie
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume II: 1800 to the Present (1973) — Joint Comp. — 173 copie
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume V: Victorian Prose and Poetry (1973) — A cura di — 166 copie
Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2001) 134 copie
Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind over a Universe of Death (2020) 87 copie
Short Story Writers and Short Stories (Bloom's Literary Criticism 20th Anniversary Collection) (2003) 66 copie
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1998) 52 copie
Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2001) 47 copie
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 40 copie
Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1986) — Autore — 34 copie
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) — A cura di — 34 copie
Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 29 copie
The Oxford anthology of English literature — A cura di — 27 copie
Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 26 copie
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2001) — A cura di — 24 copie
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2006) 24 copie
Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2005) 23 copie
Edward FitzGerald's The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2003) 22 copie
Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1998) 21 copie
Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2001) 21 copie
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 21 copie
John Donne and the Seventeenth-Century Metaphysical Poets (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) (1986) 20 copie
Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby the Scrivener, and Other Tales (Bloom's Modern Critical… (1987) 20 copie
Geoffrey Chaucer's The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 18 copie
From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays Presented to Frederick A. Pottle (1965) — A cura di — 17 copie
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 17 copie
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 17 copie
Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers and The Warden (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1925) 17 copie
Henry James's Daisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw, and Other Tales (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 15 copie
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1986) 12 copie
William Faulkner's Sanctuary (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) — A cura di — 12 copie
Poets of World War I, Part 1: Wilfred Owen & Isaac Rosenberg (Bloom's Major Poets) (1648) — A cura di — 12 copie
Poets of World War I, Part 2: Rupert Brooke & Siegfried Sassoon (Bloom's Major Poets) (2003) 11 copie
Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 10 copie
Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 7 copie
Samuel Beckett's Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 7 copie
William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 7 copie
Carson McCullers' The Ballad of the Sad Café (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2005) 7 copie
Kafka, Freud, Scholem 6 copie
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Other Stories (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2009) 6 copie
Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, & Bartleby the Scrivener (Bloom's Reviews) (1998) — A cura di — 6 copie
Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2009) 5 copie
William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 5 copie
British Women Fiction Writers: 1900-1960, Volume One (Women Writers of English & Their Works) (1997) 5 copie
Sophocles' Oedipus Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, & Antigone (Bloom's Notes) (1996) 5 copie
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 4 copie
The Critical Perspective, Volume 01: Medieval-Early Renaissance (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1985) 4 copie
The New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism: Medieval-Early Renaissance (Chelsea House Library of Literary… (1985) — A cura di — 4 copie
British Women Fiction Writers: 1900-1960, Volume Two (Women Writers of English & Their Works) (1997) 4 copie
Shakespeare's The Tempest 4 copie
John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 3 copie
William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) — A cura di — 3 copie
Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 3 copie
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (10-Volume Set) (1985) 3 copie
Twentieth-Century British Literature: A-D (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1985) 3 copie
A Scholarly Look at the Diary of Anne Frank [Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations] (1999) 3 copie
The Critical Perspective, Twentieth Century Criticism of British and American Literature to 1904, COMPLETE SET OF 10… (1985) 3 copie
British Women Fiction Writers of the 19th Century (Women Writers of English and Their Work) (1997) 2 copie
William Shakespeare's the Taming of the Shrew (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 2 copie
Yago: Las estrategias del mal 2 copie
Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, & Bartleby the Scrivener (Bloom's Notes) (1995) 2 copie
Black American Poets & Dramatists: Before the Harlem Renaissance (Writers of English) (1994) 2 copie
Servantes Loja e botës 2 copie
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (Vol. 10 Contemporary) (1990) 1 copia
The Mentor Book of Irish Poetry — A cura di — 1 copia
SI DHE PERSE TE LEXOJME 1 copia
Till I End My Song 1 copia
Kafka, Freud, Scholem 1 copia
com lleguir i per que 1 copia
William Shakespeare's Hamlet 1 copia
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (Vol. 3 Late Renaissance) (1987) 1 copia
Major Author's Edition of the New Moultons Library of Literary Criticism: Victorian (Chelsea House Library of… (1988) 1 copia
The New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism: Edmund Spenser Through William Shakespeare (1986) 1 copia
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (Vol. 8 Early Twentieth Century) (1989) 1 copia
The Critical Perspective, Volume 02: Spenser and Shakespeare (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1986) 1 copia
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (Vol. 2 Early Renaissance) (1986) 1 copia
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (Vol. 1 Classical and Medieval) (1985) 1 copia
Modern critical essays (Series) 1 copia
The Critical Perspective, Volume 10: Edwardian Literature (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1989) 1 copia
The Critical Perspective, Volume 09: Late Victorian (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1989) 1 copia
The Critical Perspective, Volume 08: Mid-Victorian (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1989) 1 copia
The Critical Perspective, Volume 06: Late Georgian (Chelsea House LIbrary of Literary Criticism) 1 copia
The Critical Perspective, Volume 04: Restoration-Early Georgian (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1987) 1 copia
Major Authors Edition of the New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism multivolume collection (1996) 1 copia
'The Grand Comedian Visits the Bible' in NYRB 59/3, 23 February 2013 [review of Saramago's 'Cain'] 1 copia
Bloom Harold 1 copia
Two Worlds of Marcel Proust 1 copia
The Critical Perspective, Volume 07: Early Victorian (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1988) 1 copia
John Milton's Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Minor Poems (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 1 copia
William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Poetry and Prose of William Blake {Erdman, ed.} (1970) — Commentary, alcune edizioni — 1,389 copie
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 929 copie
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Collaboratore — 390 copie
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Prefazione; Collaboratore — 367 copie
Death in Venice, Tonio Kroger, and Other Writings (German Library) (1999) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 36 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Mark Twain (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2007) — Introduzione — 9 copie
Bloom's How to Write About John Steinbeck (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2007) — Introduzione — 8 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Harper Lee (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2011) — Introduzione — 8 copie
Bloom's How to Write About F. Scott Fitzgerald (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2007) — Introduzione — 7 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Jane Austen (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2009) — Introduzione — 7 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Ernest Hemingway (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2008) — Introduzione — 6 copie
Bloom's How to Write About William Shakespeare (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2008) — Introduzione — 6 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Edgar Allan Poe (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2008) — Introduzione — 6 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Shakespeare's Tragedies (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2010) — Introduzione — 5 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Maya Angelou (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2012) — Introduzione — 5 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Nathaniel Hawthorne (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2008) — Introduzione — 5 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Sylvia Plath (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2012) — Introduzione — 5 copie
Bloom's How to Write About J.D. Salinger (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2008) — Introduzione — 5 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Emily Dickinson (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2007) — Introduzione — 5 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Shakespeare's Histories (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2010) — Introduzione — 4 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Shakespeare's Romances (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2010) — Introduzione — 4 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Stephen Crane (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2011) — Introduzione — 4 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Joseph Conrad (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2010) — Introduzione — 4 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Mary Shelley (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2011) — Introduzione — 4 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Herman Melville (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2008) — Introduzione — 4 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Oscar Wilde (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2009) — Introduzione — 4 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Shakespeare's Comedies (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2010) — Introduzione — 3 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Tennessee Williams (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2009) — Introduzione — 3 copie
Bloom's How to Write About the Brontës (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2009) — Introduzione — 3 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Toni Morrison (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2008) — Introduzione — 3 copie
Bloom's How to Write About George Orwell (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2010) — Introduzione — 3 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Robert Frost (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2009) — Introduzione — 3 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Kurt Vonnegut (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2012) — Introduzione — 3 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Homer (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2010) — Introduzione — 3 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Geoffrey Chaucer (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2009) — Introduzione — 2 copie
Bloom's How to Write About Charles Dickens (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2008) — Introduzione — 2 copie
Hebbes 4 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Bloom's How to Write About William Faulkner (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2009) — Introduzione — 1 copia
Bloom's How to Write About James Joyce (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2011) — Introduzione — 1 copia
Bloom's How to Write About Langston Hughes (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2009) — Introduzione — 1 copia
A Recent Imagining: Interviews with Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, Paul De Man (1986) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Tragedie — Introduzione — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1930-07-11
- Data di morte
- 2019-10-14
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- VS
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, VS
- Luogo di morte
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, VS
- Istruzione
- Cornell University (BA | 1951)
University of Cambridge (Pembroke College)
Yale University (PhD | 1955) - Attività lavorative
- writer
author
teacher
professor
literary critic - Relazioni
- Frye, Northrop (main influence)
Gould, Jean (wife) - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1990)
Yale University
Bread Loaf School of English - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Fulbright Fellowship (1955)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1962-63)
Newton Arvin Award (1967)
Zabel Prize, American Institute of Arts and Letters (1982)
Sterling Professorship, Yale University (1983)
MacArthur Fellowship (1985) (mostra tutto 9)
14th Catalonia International Prize (2002)
Hans Christian Andersen Award (2005)
Fellow, American Philosophical Society (1995) - Breve biografia
- Harold Bloom wordt wereldwijd gezien als een van de belangrijkste literatuurcritici en een van de meest vooraanstaande denkers. Hij is Sterling Professor of the Humanities aan Yale University en de auteur van een groot aantal belangwekkende boeken, waaronder The Western Canon, Shakespeare: the invention of the human en The anxiety of influence. Bloom schreef bovendien essays over onder meer Keats, Shelley, Wilde en Poe.
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Bloom has edited several books with the same title for different series. Combine with care.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 1,183
- Opere correlate
- 92
- Utenti
- 34,837
- Popolarità
- #543
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 267
- ISBN
- 3,352
- Lingue
- 19
- Preferito da
- 51
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Harold Bloom, uno dei critici letterari più famosi del Novecento, è morto il 14 ottobre 2019 a ottantanove anni. Nel 1994 pubblicò The Western Canon, Il canone occidentale, uno dei libri più discussi della critica letteraria di tutti i tempi. Nel canone Bloom elenca i ventisei autori che secondo lui definiscono e hanno fondato la letteratura occidentale. Secondo Bloom la storia della letteratura procede per contrapposizione e imitazione: gli scrittori del canone sono i rami da cui è scaturito tutto il resto. L’elenco comincia con Shakespeare, che per lui era «Dio»: «chiunque tu sia e ovunque ti trovi, è sempre davanti a te, concettualmente e quanto a immaginario».
Il Canone Occidentale attirò a Bloom molte critiche di razzismo e sessismo, per l’assenza di donne e l’affollamento di scrittori di lingua inglese. Bloom si difese parlando di Scuola del Risentimento, attribuendo le critiche alle correnti dei critici marxisti, femministi, neostorici, lacaniani, decostruzionisti, semioticisti. Sono celebri anche le sue stroncature feroci di alcuni degli scrittori contemporanei più famosi e apprezzati – Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Dario Fo e Stephen King – e alle scelte dell’Accademia del Nobel: «L’hanno dato ad ogni idiota di quinta categoria, da Doris Lessing, che ha scritto un solo libro decente quarant’anni fa, e oggi firma fantascienza femminista, a Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, illeggibile, a Dario Fo, semplicemente ridicolo».
Per Harold Bloom la biografia e le convinzioni politiche di un autore non sono criteri validi per definire il valore letterario di un testo, in cui conta solo «la forza estetica, la quale consiste primariamente di un amalgama: padronanza del linguaggio figurativo, originalità, capacità cognitiva, sapere, esuberanza espressiva»: «leggere i grandi scrittori – come Omero, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoj – non ci rende cittadini migliori. Tutta l’arte è completamente inutile, come diceva il sublime Oscar Wilde, che aveva ragione su tutto. Ci ha detto anche che la cattiva poesia è sincera. Se potessi, ordinerei che queste parole fossero scolpite all’ingresso di ogni università, così che ogni studente possa meditare sullo splendore di questa visione».
William Shakespeare
Dante Alighieri
Geoffrey Chaucer
Miguel de Cervantes
Michel de Montaigne
Molière
John Milton
Samuel Johnson
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
William Wordsworth
Jane Austen
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Leo Tolstoy
Henrik Ibsen
Sigmund Freud
Marcel Proust
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
Franz Kafka
Jorge Luis Borges
Pablo Neruda
Fernando Pessoa
Samuel Beckett… (altro)