Harold Bloom (1930–2019)
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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 visa mer 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) visa färre
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(eng) Bloom has edited several books with the same title for different series. Combine with care.
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Verk av Harold Bloom
Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1963) — Redaktör — 389 exemplar
William Golding's Lord of the Flies (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1999) — Redaktör — 330 exemplar
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) — Redaktör — 256 exemplar
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume IV: Romantic Poetry and Prose (1973) 218 exemplar
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume I: The Middle Ages through the Eighteenth Century (1973) — Redaktör — 187 exemplar
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume II: 1800 to the Present (1973) — Joint Comp. — 173 exemplar
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume V: Victorian Prose and Poetry (1973) — Redaktör — 166 exemplar
Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2001) 133 exemplar
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1986) 122 exemplar
Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind over a Universe of Death (2020) 85 exemplar
Short Story Writers and Short Stories (Bloom's Literary Criticism 20th Anniversary Collection) (2003) 65 exemplar
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1998) 52 exemplar
Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2001) 47 exemplar
William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 46 exemplar
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 40 exemplar
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) — Redaktör — 34 exemplar
Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1986) — Författare — 34 exemplar
Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 34 exemplar
Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 29 exemplar
Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2004) 28 exemplar
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1986) 27 exemplar
Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 26 exemplar
Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1964) 26 exemplar
The Oxford anthology of English literature — Redaktör — 25 exemplar
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 24 exemplar
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2001) — Redaktör — 24 exemplar
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2006) 23 exemplar
Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2005) 22 exemplar
Edward FitzGerald's The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2003) 22 exemplar
Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1998) 21 exemplar
Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2001) 21 exemplar
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 21 exemplar
Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby the Scrivener, and Other Tales (Bloom's Modern Critical… (1987) 20 exemplar
John Donne and the Seventeenth-Century Metaphysical Poets (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) (1986) 19 exemplar
Richard Wright's Black Boy (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) — Redaktör — 18 exemplar
From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays Presented to Frederick A. Pottle (1965) — Redaktör — 17 exemplar
Geoffrey Chaucer's The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 17 exemplar
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 17 exemplar
Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers and The Warden (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1925) 17 exemplar
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 16 exemplar
Henry James's Daisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw, and Other Tales (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 15 exemplar
Twentieth-Century American Literature (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1986) 13 exemplar
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1986) 12 exemplar
William Faulkner's Sanctuary (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) — Redaktör — 12 exemplar
Poets of World War I, Part 1: Wilfred Owen & Isaac Rosenberg (Bloom's Major Poets) (1648) — Redaktör — 12 exemplar
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (Bloom's Notes) (1999) — Redaktör — 12 exemplar
Black American Poets and Dramatists of the Harlem Renaissance (Writers of English) (1994) 11 exemplar
Poets of World War I, Part 2: Rupert Brooke & Siegfried Sassoon (Bloom's Major Poets) (2003) 11 exemplar
American Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960 (Women Writers of English & Their Works) (1997) 11 exemplar
Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 10 exemplar
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2005) 9 exemplar
Carlos Fuentes' The Death of Artemio Cruz (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2006) 8 exemplar
William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 8 exemplar
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 8 exemplar
Samuel Beckett's Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 7 exemplar
William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 7 exemplar
James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 7 exemplar
Carson McCullers' The Ballad of the Sad Café (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2005) 7 exemplar
Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 7 exemplar
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Other Stories (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2009) 6 exemplar
Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, & Bartleby the Scrivener (Bloom's Reviews) (1998) — Redaktör — 6 exemplar
Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2009) 5 exemplar
William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 5 exemplar
Sophocles' Oedipus Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, & Antigone (Bloom's Notes) (1996) 5 exemplar
British Women Fiction Writers: 1900-1960, Volume One (Women Writers of English & Their Works) (1997) 5 exemplar
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 4 exemplar
British Women Fiction Writers: 1900-1960, Volume Two (Women Writers of English & Their Works) (1997) 4 exemplar
The New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism: Medieval-Early Renaissance (Chelsea House Library of Literary… (1985) — Redaktör — 4 exemplar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 01: Medieval-Early Renaissance (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1985) 4 exemplar
Shakespeare's The Tempest 4 exemplar
A Scholarly Look at the Diary of Anne Frank [Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations] (1999) 3 exemplar
John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 3 exemplar
William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 3 exemplar
Twentieth-Century British Literature: A-D (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1985) 3 exemplar
Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 3 exemplar
William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) — Redaktör — 3 exemplar
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (10-Volume Set) (1985) 3 exemplar
The Critical Perspective, Twentieth Century Criticism of British and American Literature to 1904, COMPLETE SET OF 10… (1985) 3 exemplar
Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, & Bartleby the Scrivener (Bloom's Notes) (1995) 2 exemplar
Mark Twain (Bloom's Major Novelists) 2 exemplar
William Shakespeare's the Taming of the Shrew (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 2 exemplar
Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley 2 exemplar
Black American Poets & Dramatists: Before the Harlem Renaissance (Writers of English) (1994) 2 exemplar
Servantes Loja e botës 2 exemplar
British Women Fiction Writers of the 19th Century (Women Writers of English and Their Work) (1997) 2 exemplar
John Milton's Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Minor Poems (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 1 exemplar
british women fiction writers, 1900-1960 1 exemplar
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (Vol. 10 Contemporary) (1990) 1 exemplar
The Mentor Book of Irish Poetry — Redaktör — 1 exemplar
The literary criticism of John Ruskin 1 exemplar
William Shakespeare's Hamlet 1 exemplar
Map of Misreading Hardcover – April 3, 1975 1 exemplar
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? 12-Copy Prepack 1 exemplar
Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 1 exemplar
William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 1 exemplar
Kafka, Freud, Scholem 1 exemplar
SI DHE PERSE TE LEXOJME 1 exemplar
La kabbala e la tradizione critica 1 exemplar
com lleguir i per que 1 exemplar
Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Triumph of Life (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 1 exemplar
Till I End My Song 1 exemplar
English Romantic Poetry Volume One 1 exemplar
Major Author's Edition of the New Moultons Library of Literary Criticism: Victorian (Chelsea House Library of… (1988) 1 exemplar
'An Interview with Harold Bloom' 16 Nov 1985 1 exemplar
Modern critical essays (Series) 1 exemplar
Shakespeare and Genius: A Lecture 1 exemplar
Bloom Harold 1 exemplar
'The Grand Comedian Visits the Bible' in NYRB 59/3, 23 February 2013 [review of Saramago's 'Cain'] 1 exemplar
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (Vol. 2 Early Renaissance) (1986) 1 exemplar
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (Vol. 1 Classical and Medieval) (1985) 1 exemplar
The New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism: Edmund Spenser Through William Shakespeare (1986) 1 exemplar
Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 1 exemplar
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (Vol. 3 Late Renaissance) (1987) 1 exemplar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 02: Spenser and Shakespeare (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1986) 1 exemplar
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (Vol. 8 Early Twentieth Century) (1989) 1 exemplar
George Eliot's Silas Marner (Bloom's Notes) 1 exemplar
Two Worlds of Marcel Proust 1 exemplar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 07: Early Victorian (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1988) 1 exemplar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 10: Edwardian Literature (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1989) 1 exemplar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 09: Late Victorian (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1989) 1 exemplar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 05: Georgian (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) 1 exemplar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 08: Mid-Victorian (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1989) 1 exemplar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 06: Late Georgian (Chelsea House LIbrary of Literary Criticism) 1 exemplar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 04: Restoration-Early Georgian (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1987) 1 exemplar
Major Authors Edition of the New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism multivolume collection (1996) 1 exemplar
American Naturalism (Bloom's Period Studies) 1 exemplar
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The Poetry and Prose of William Blake {Erdman, ed.} (1970) — Commentary, vissa utgåvor — 1,379 exemplar
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (2002) — Förord — 1,030 exemplar
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 915 exemplar
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 387 exemplar
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Förord; Bidragsgivare — 364 exemplar
Ursula K. Le Guin: Collected Poems (LOA #368) (Library of America, 368) (2023) — Redaktör — 40 exemplar
Death in Venice, Tonio Kroger, and Other Writings (German Library) (1999) — Förord, vissa utgåvor — 36 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Mark Twain (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2007) — Inledning — 9 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About John Steinbeck (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2007) — Inledning — 8 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Harper Lee (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2011) — Inledning — 8 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About F. Scott Fitzgerald (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2007) — Inledning — 7 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Jane Austen (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2009) — Inledning — 7 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Ernest Hemingway (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2008) — Inledning — 6 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About William Shakespeare (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2008) — Inledning — 6 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Edgar Allan Poe (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2008) — Inledning — 6 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Shakespeare's Tragedies (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2010) — Inledning — 5 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Maya Angelou (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2012) — Inledning — 5 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Nathaniel Hawthorne (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2008) — Inledning — 5 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Sylvia Plath (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2012) — Inledning — 5 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About J.D. Salinger (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2008) — Inledning — 5 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Emily Dickinson (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2007) — Inledning — 5 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Shakespeare's Histories (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2010) — Inledning — 4 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Shakespeare's Romances (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2010) — Inledning — 4 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Stephen Crane (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2011) — Inledning — 4 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Joseph Conrad (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2010) — Inledning — 4 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Mary Shelley (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2011) — Inledning — 4 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Herman Melville (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2008) — Inledning — 4 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Oscar Wilde (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2009) — Inledning — 4 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Shakespeare's Comedies (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2010) — Inledning — 3 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Tennessee Williams (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2009) — Inledning — 3 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About the Brontës (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2009) — Inledning — 3 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Toni Morrison (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2008) — Inledning — 3 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About George Orwell (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2010) — Inledning — 3 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Robert Frost (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2009) — Inledning — 3 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Kurt Vonnegut (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2012) — Inledning — 3 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Homer (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2010) — Inledning — 3 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Geoffrey Chaucer (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2009) — Inledning — 2 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Charles Dickens (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2008) — Inledning — 2 exemplar
Hebbes 4 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About William Faulkner (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2009) — Inledning — 1 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About James Joyce (Bloom's How to Write About Literature) (2011) — Inledning — 1 exemplar
Bloom's How to Write About Langston Hughes (Bloom's How to Write about Literature) (2009) — Inledning — 1 exemplar
A Recent Imagining: Interviews with Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, Paul De Man (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Tragedie — Inledning — 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1930-07-11
- Avled
- 2019-10-14
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- VS
- Födelseort
- New York, New York, VS
- Dödsort
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Bostadsorter
- New York, New York, VS
- Utbildning
- Cornell University (BA | 1951)
University of Cambridge (Pembroke College)
Yale University (PhD | 1955) - Yrken
- writer
author
teacher
professor
literary critic - Relationer
- Frye, Northrop (main influence)
Gould, Jean (wife) - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1990)
Yale University
Bread Loaf School of English - Priser och utmärkelser
- 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) (visa alla 9)
14th Catalonia International Prize (2002)
Hans Christian Andersen Award (2005)
Fellow, American Philosophical Society (1995) - Kort biografi
- 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.
- Särskiljningsnotis
- Bloom has edited several books with the same title for different series. Combine with care.
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