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A landmark achievement -- expansive, erudite, and passionate -- Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly illuminating each work with unrivaled warmth, wit, and insight.
- Harold Bloom
' In a chronological survey of each of the plays, Bloom explores the supra-human personalities of Shakespeare's great protagonists: Hamlet, Lear, Falstaff, Rosalind, Juliet. They represent the apogee of Shakespeare's art, that art which is Britain's most powerful and dominant cultural contribution to the world, here vividly recovered by an inspired and wise scholar at the height of his powers.
Hace 5 días · By Harold Bloom. Fourth Estate 745pp £25. In Harold Bloom’s native United States, his latest tome has proved something of a publishing phenomenon. When I visited New York last autumn, this academic panorama of Shakespeare was enjoying a lengthy sojourn in the New York Times’ bestseller list; its daunting 750-page bulk was to be found on ...
1 de jul. de 2008 · Shakespeare: The Invention Of The Human. Paperback – 1 July 2008. 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 ...
- Harold Bloom
And he argues that Shakespeare's writings have redefined our culture's views of human nature, creating with his invented char-acters the enlightenment mind, a mind characterized by an acute form of self awareness. Bloom sees the Shakespearian invention as making Freud's "revolution" an echo of what Shakespeare had earlier wrought.
A reader might be forgiven for thinking that Harold Bloom’s Shakespeare The Invention of the Human is merely a set of reflections on the bard’s oeuvre. That is, after all, how many critics have advertised the book.
In short, Shakespeare invented our understanding of ourselves. He knows us better than we do: 'The plays remain the outward limit of human achievement: aesthetically, cognitively, in certain ways morally, even spiritually. They abide beyond the end of the mind's reach; we cannot catch up to them.
