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Action Adventure Adventure stories. bibliography Drama Drama. National Film Registry. Poetry. Tragedies. WesternBloom, Harold
Summary: The American Canon gathers five decades of Bloom's essays, occasional pieces, and introductions as well as excerpts from several of his books, weaving them together into an unrivalled tour of the great American bookshelf. Always a champion of aesthetic power, Bloom tells the story of our national literature in terms of artistic struggle against powerful predecessors and the American thirst for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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Summary: "Harold Bloom, regarded by some as the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, presents an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of King Lear--the third in his series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities, hailed as Bloom's "last love letter to the shaping spirit of his imagination" on the front page of The New York Times Book Review. King Lear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 BLOBloom, Harold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.9 BLOOBloom, Harold.
Summary: "Harold Bloom, named "The indispensible critic" by the New York Review of Books, returns with a definitive yet personal book on twelve American writers upon whose work he believes the American canon is built. While his references to American writers are wide-ranging, he focuses on twelve: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Mark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2015
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Summary: From the Bible to Ralph Ellison, America's most prominent and bestselling literary critic takes an enlightening look at the concept of genius through the ages in a celebration of the greatest creative writers of all time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WARBK 0000
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Summary: "In his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction, America's most original and controversial literary critic and legendary Yale professor writes trenchantly about fifty-two masterworks spanning the Western tradition"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.3 BLOBloom, Harold
Summary: Offers an in-depth exploration of Shakespeare's character Cleopatra, delving into the complexities of her personality as well as how the author's understanding of her has evolved over the years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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Contents: The power of wisdom -- The Hebrews: Job and Ecclesiastes -- The Greeks: Plato's contest with Homer -- Cervantes and Shakespeare -- The greatest ideas are the greatest events -- Montaigne and Francis Bacon -- Samuel Johnson and Goethe -- Emerson and Nietzsche -- Freud and Proust -- Christian wisdom -- The gospel of Thomas -- Saint Augustine and reading -- Coda: nemesis and wisdom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2004
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Summary: Hamlet: poem Unlimited is Bloom's attempt to uncover the mystery of both Prince Hamlet and the play itself, how both prince and drama are able to break through the conventions of theatrical mimesis and the representation of character, making us question the very nature of theatrical illusion. In twenty-five brief chapters, Bloom takes us through the major soliloquies, scenes, characters, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2003
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Summary: Focuses on how we use literature to gain deeper self-awareness. Poems, stories, novels, plays and parables are all analyzed as forms of writing as immersion, the language of individuality and inwardness. Bloom also addresses the idea of why we read: increased individuality, respite from visual bombardment, and a return to "deep feeling" and "deep thinking."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2001
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 028.9 BLOLe Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: "'The poet's measures serve anarchic joy. / The story-teller tells one story: freedom.' Throughout a celebrated career that spanned genres, Ursula K. Le Guin was first ad last a poet. This sixth volume in the definitive Library of America Le Guin edition presents for the first time an authoritative gathering of her verse -- from the earliest collection, Wild Angels, through her final...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An anthology of classic poetic works with religious and spiritual themes evaluates the influences of such movements as Puritanism, the Great Awakenings, and Transcendentalism, in a volume that discusses the works of such figures as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Poetry AmericanSummary: "'Plain arithmetic. Money splits better two ways instead of three,' smooth-talking outlaw Ben Vandergroat reasons to his captors, three bounty hunters thrown together by chance. They're taking him to justice in Abilene, but Ben has other ideas." -- Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN NAKCervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Summary: "Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain."--Book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CERShakespeare, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHABloom, Carole.
Contents: Baking essentials -- Best baking practices -- Essential ingredients -- Essential equipment and supplies -- Essential techniques -- Essential baking language -- Fruit and vegetables -- Stone fruit -- Apples, pears and quinces -- Citrus fruit -- Berries and grapes -- Tropical and exotic fruit -- Dried fruit -- Vegetables -- Nuts and seeds -- Nuts -- Seeds -- Chocolate -- About chocolate -- Dark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.815 BLOBloom, Carole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossing Press 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2009