Articles related to "Harold Bloom"



"The Final Word About Harry" (for now!)
Harold Blooms commentary on Harry Potter from the New York Times
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A Chapter a Day in Your New Year's Resolution!
Start your year fresh with a New Year's resolution of reading a chapter a day of a great book! And find the actual book you are looking for online, or at least the title of a book you might be interested in by going to the links in the article! Begin reading a book TODAY!
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Unraveling Bellow 's Ravelstein
I couldn't resist, after writing Ten Good Reasons, I wanted to really understand why <i>Ravelstein</i> had all the critics, popping open good champagne, and declaring 'This is cause for Celebration.' You know I think, for once, that they just might be right.
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How To Enjoy Reading: Fact vs. Fiction,
A brief look at A. S. Byatt's <i>The Biographer's Tale</i> segues to a more in-depth discussion about Harold Bloom's advice, eloquently expressed in <i>How to Read and Why</i>, regarding the reading and appreciation of literature.,A brief look at A. S. Byatt's <i>The Biographer's Tale</i> segues to a more in-depth discussion about Harold Bloom's advice, eloquently expressed in <i>How to Read and Why</i>, regarding the reading and appreciation of literature.
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New Year's Resolution and the Art of Persuasion
Returning to the classics--a discussion of Jane Austen's <i>Persuasion</i>.,Returning to the classics--a discussion of Jane Austen's <i>Persuasion</i>.
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Literary Opinion Swapping!
This essay discusses the importance of understanding how and why a reader responds to a writing! Additionally, it describes how readers can swap opinions about what they have read in a more enlightened way when they discover their own reading response style!
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Locksley Hall by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tennyson's poem, told in a dramatic monologue, depicts the unnamed persona's struggle and triumph over his emotions at Locksley Hall.
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Vastness of Scope in Antony and Cleopatra
This article examines features which go towards creating the epic proportion in the representation of societies and world within Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
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What Did James Joyce Mean When He Wrote Ulysses Anyway ? Part III
Time moves through the pages of Ulysses as the feathers of an arrow spinning in the currents of a windstorm, but this great author managed to hit his mark. Part three delves a little deeper into the analysis of Ulysses.
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Marriages in A Midsummer Night's Dream
This article considers the dramatic role of the three marriages between humans in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the realism of each marriage.
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The Theme of Love in The Tragedy of King Lear
This articles explores how love is misdirected in the play, and it's contribution in creating a sublime expression of human suffering in King Lear.
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The Theme of Suffering in King Lear
The motif of suffering is a main concern in The Tragedy of King Lear.
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Ambiguity in The Lady of Shalott
The Lady of Shalott is most easily appreciated as a beautiful poem about art. However, there are other aspects which reveal complexity underneath its smooth rhyme.
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Egyptian Love Portrayed in Antony and Cleopatra
This article examines Shakespeare's portrayal of Cleopatra, focusing on the ideas of Cleopatra as an representation of Egypt, her expression of love, and her final death.
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Examining Falstaff in Henry IV Part I
This article considers aspects of Falstaff that make him one of Shakespeare's most believable, famous and best loved characters.
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Falstaff's Relevance in Henry IV Part I
This article examines W.H Auden's opinion that 'the world of historical reality...is not a world which [Falstaff] can inhabit' in Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I.
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Heart of the Storm in The Tragedy of King Lear
Weather in Shakespeare's plays is used for various dramatic purposes. This article focuses on analysing the character development of King Lear within the story.
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Poetic Weaknesses in Locksley Hall
Locksley Hall by Alfred Lord Tennyson is a popular poem, but is blemished by deficiencies in its poetic structure and language, and also the persona's disagreeability.
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Return of the Literary Canon
Writers who are familiar with classic literary works are better able to engage with the ideas deemed most relevant to a culture.
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Tears, Idle Tears by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Taken from The Princess, one of Tennyson's major works, Tears, Idle Tears is remarkable not only for its sadness but also its enigmatic qualities.
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The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The story of the Lady of Shalott in her tower, and her eventual death upon Sir Lancelot's entrance into her life, is one of Tennyson's most exquisite and popular works.
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Tom Albrecht as Hamlet
The Roxy Theatre stage must be like a second home to Tom Albrecht - asked in 2007 by Owen Sound Little Theatre director Michael Rea to play the title role in Hamlet.
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What Did James Joyce Mean When He Wrote Ulysses Anyway ?
When James Joyce created his novel, "Ulysses", he is said to have written the best novel of the twentieth century. The only problem with the book was that it had so many literary connotations for the average reader to understand. "Ulysses" is the type of book that literary persons are fond of discussing at coffee parties and other social get togethers. So, this year my christmas preasent to you is to give you a brief stripped down version of "Ulysses" in less than 1,400 words. Instead of spending years and years to understand this book, you will know how to discuss this novel with the best tweed suit in the room. Merry Christmas and a Happy Bloomsday Of A New Year !!
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When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd
When the great Anglo-American novelist Henry James first read 'When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd,' he plainly detested it.
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Worlds of Character in A Midsummer Night's Dream
This article analyses how the intertwining of diverse worlds of characters contribute to creating an atmosphere of dreaming in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Determining The Genre of Antony and Cleopatra
This article considers the fluid identity of Antony and Cleopatra, and the difficulty of pigeon-holing it into a standard Shakespearean dramatic convention.
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Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
The nobel-proze winning author's third novel explores the relationship between gender and race in the title character's search for his cultural heritage.
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Shakespearean Overview - The Big Four
<b>Update</b>: Finally this article is written. It still is a simple overview of Shakespeare's four main tragedies. Look for the next original article next week. Thanks!
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The Catholic Connection (Part Three of Four)
James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." Although these artists were not Americans, I feel their seismic contributions to 20th-century cinema and literature demand attention on this site.
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Cormac McCarthy, American Novelist
Readers, researchers, and scholars, one of America's most highly praised writers, Cormac McCarthy, has finally made his papers available for study in San Marcos, Texas.
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Brink Road and Postmodernism
Brink Road exhibits themes familiar to postmoderism and responds to alienation from a higher power through a complex relationship to nature.
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Library Books in more ways than one
Books about books and libraries in time for National Book Month.
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Portrait of an Artist Being Red
Anne Carson's <i> Autobiography of Red</i> is a rare red-winged monster in the world of poetry today.

The Book That Changed My Life
Roxanne J. Coady & Joy Johannessen have collected essays from 71 writers about the book that most influenced their future relationship with literature.
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Hamlet's Delay in Killing Claudius
Hamlet is a truly heroic figure. But the challenge to any director of the play is to explain Hamlet's delay in killing Claudius without undermining Hamlet's status.
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In Defense of Psychoanalysis - Part IV
Harold Bloom called Freud "The central imagination of our age". That psychoanalysis is not a scientific theory in the strict, rigorous sense of the word has long been established.
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John Constable's 'Salisbury Cathedral'
This article will attempt to place John Constable's 'Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows' within the context of Romanticism.
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Shakespeare - Hamlet's Problem with Women
Hamlet's problems, and the fate of Ophelia, in Shakespeare's tragedy can be blamed on his inability to reconcile the idea of Gertrude, his mother, and her sexuality.
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The Appeal of American Christianity
Hundreds of Protestant denominations offer many reasons for membership that often transcend spiritual experiences but cater more to the needs of modern Christians.
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The Madness of One
<font face="times new roman" color=black size=2>The madness of Hamlet. The question that has weighed on the minds of audiences for centuries, and will surely continue to baffle and inspire for centuries to come.</font>
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Los Angeles The Other City: Part II
Los Angeles contains the byways and passages of mind within her city streets. Part II of Another City examines the contribution of a new generation of beat writers, and how they like their counterparts are helping to change the face of literature through another decade of interesting and exciting phases.
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Romeo and Juliet: What's In a Name?, Part II
Part II, with some mentions of "Shakespeare in Love" and a one-hit wonder from 1964.
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Twenty-Five Greatest Champions of America: Part One
A Ranking of the Twenty-Five Most Influential Americans in Advancing the Principles Embodied in the Founding of the United States. Part One introduces the ranking, explains the criteria for selection, and unveils the first five of our list of twenty-five distinguished Americans.
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Victorian Themes in Tennessee Williams' Plays (Part Two of Two)
Along with Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams is commonly held to be one of the greatest American playwrights of the MODERN age. In many respects, however, I believe that his work subscribes to a Victorian, pre-Modernist tradition, which I have attempted to evoke here.
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Helios: A Journey To The Land Of The Whispering Winds.
With use of the metaphor Helios, Joyce describes the journey of Stephen Dedalus as he encounters the waters of the wayward winds, and the formless world of modernity portrayed by the wandering rocks circling around the outer boundaries of space-time.
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What Did James Joyce Mean When He Wrote Ulysses Anyway ? Part IV
This fourth in a series studying the novel Ulysses, begins a study of the first chapter. Stephen is introduced, and the reader sees him struggling in the next phase of his intellectual journey: that of the transformation from student to artist.
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