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About Harold Bloom
See more books from this AuthorRon Rosenbaum’s new book about scholarly debates over Shakespeare gets bogged down in blow-by-blow accounts of academic feuds.
Oct 20 2006 | Read Full Review of Shakespeare: The Invention of...The leitmotif of Shakespeare's ""invention of the human,"" i.e., of the changeable, individual human character, is a useful through-line to the essays but never highjacks them as Bloom's critical tropes sometimes do.
| Read Full Review of Shakespeare: The Invention of...The "Boom-Boom" Bloom who has played to the culture warriors' peanut gallery with his Billboard-style greatest hits of the Western Canon, and who's padded his books with slapstick attacks on the "School of Resentment," is not the real Bloom -- the Bloom who taught us how to read Wordsworth, Emers...
Nov 03 1998 | Read Full Review of Shakespeare: The Invention of...Literary scholar/critic Bloom devotes an essay to each of the plays on the idea that Shakespeare's work is re
Jan 01 2014 | Read Full Review of Shakespeare: The Invention of...An aggregated and normalized score based on 124 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes