Ruin the sacred truths : poetry and belief from the Bible to the present
(2010)
By:
Bloom, Harold
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : University Press Audiobooks, 2010
Made available through hoopla
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 11 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781509494668 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT13751603, 1509494669 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 13751603
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Mort Crim
Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or "J") writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Illiad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by Freud, Kafka, and Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. This is criticism at its best. This book is published by Harvard University Press
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