Shakespeare: The Invention Of The Human by Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of The Western Canon, has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare's genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays. How to understand Shakespeare, whose ability so far exceeds his predecessors and successors, whose genius has defied generations of critics' explanations, whose work is of greater influence in the modern age even than the Bible? This book is a visionary summation of Harold Bloom's reading of Shakespeare and in it he expounds a brilliant and far-reaching critical theory: that Shakespeare was, through his dramatic characters, the inventor of human personality as we have come to understand it. In short, Shakespeare invented our understanding of ourselves.

Publisher:	Fourth Estate
Year:	1999
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9781841150482
Condition:	Good
Description:	Heavy; Owner's Name inside. Some foxing, especially to page edges.

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SKU: 1595451
Location: Plays