Harold Bloom (1930–2019)
Auteur van The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
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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 toon meer 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) toon minder
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(eng) Bloom has edited several books with the same title for different series. Combine with care.
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Voortekenen van een nieuw millennium : kennis van engelen, dromen en wederopstanding (1996) 425 exemplaren
Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1963) — Redacteur — 383 exemplaren
William Golding's Lord of the Flies (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1999) — Redacteur — 331 exemplaren
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) — Redacteur — 255 exemplaren
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume IV: Romantic Poetry and Prose (1973) 215 exemplaren
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume I: The Middle Ages through the Eighteenth Century (1973) — Redacteur — 182 exemplaren
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume II: 1800 to the Present (1973) — Joint Comp. — 169 exemplaren
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume V: Victorian Prose and Poetry (1973) — Redacteur — 162 exemplaren
Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2001) 133 exemplaren
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1986) 124 exemplaren
Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind over a Universe of Death (2020) 77 exemplaren
Short Story Writers and Short Stories (Bloom's Literary Criticism 20th Anniversary Collection) (2003) 64 exemplaren
Essayists and Prophets (Bloom's Literary Criticism 20th Anniversary Collection) (2004) 53 exemplaren
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2000) 52 exemplaren
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1998) 52 exemplaren
Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2001) 47 exemplaren
William Faulkner's the Sound and the Fury (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 46 exemplaren
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 38 exemplaren
C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2006) 37 exemplaren
Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 34 exemplaren
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) — Redacteur — 34 exemplaren
J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2000) 34 exemplaren
Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1986) — Auteur — 32 exemplaren
Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 29 exemplaren
Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2004) 29 exemplaren
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 27 exemplaren
Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 26 exemplaren
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1986) 26 exemplaren
Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1964) 26 exemplaren
The Oxford anthology of English literature — Redacteur — 25 exemplaren
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 24 exemplaren
Dante's The Divine Comedy (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) — Redacteur — 23 exemplaren
Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2005) 23 exemplaren
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2001) — Redacteur — 23 exemplaren
Edward FitzGerald's The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2003) 22 exemplaren
Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1998) 22 exemplaren
Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2001) 21 exemplaren
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2006) 21 exemplaren
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 20 exemplaren
Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby the Scrivener, and Other Tales (Bloom's Modern Critical… (1987) 19 exemplaren
John Donne and the Seventeenth-Century Metaphysical Poets (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) (1986) 19 exemplaren
Richard Wright's Black Boy (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) — Redacteur — 18 exemplaren
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 17 exemplaren
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 17 exemplaren
From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays Presented to Frederick A. Pottle (1965) — Redacteur — 17 exemplaren
Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers and The Warden (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1925) 17 exemplaren
Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 15 exemplaren
Geoffrey Chaucer's The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 15 exemplaren
Henry James's Daisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw, and Other Tales (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 14 exemplaren
Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 14 exemplaren
Twentieth-Century American Literature (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1986) 13 exemplaren
The Revelation of St. John the Divine (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 12 exemplaren
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (Bloom's Notes) (1999) — Redacteur — 12 exemplaren
Poets of World War I, Part 1: Wilfred Owen & Isaac Rosenberg (Bloom's Major Poets) (1648) — Redacteur — 12 exemplaren
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1986) 12 exemplaren
William Faulkner's Sanctuary (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) — Redacteur — 12 exemplaren
Poets of World War I, Part 2: Rupert Brooke & Siegfried Sassoon (Bloom's Major Poets) (2003) 11 exemplaren
American Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960 (Women Writers of English & Their Works) (1997) 11 exemplaren
Lesbian and Bisexual Fiction Writers (Women Writers of English and Their Works) (1997) 10 exemplaren
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2005) 9 exemplaren
Black American Poets and Dramatists of the Harlem Renaissance (Writers of English) (1994) 9 exemplaren
Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 9 exemplaren
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2000) 9 exemplaren
William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 8 exemplaren
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 8 exemplaren
Carlos Fuentes' The Death of Artemio Cruz (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2006) 8 exemplaren
Samuel Beckett's Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 7 exemplaren
Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 7 exemplaren
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2010) 7 exemplaren
Women Writers of Children's Literature (Women Writers of English and Their Works) (1997) 7 exemplaren
James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 7 exemplaren
William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 7 exemplaren
Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, & Bartleby the Scrivener (Bloom's Reviews) (1998) — Redacteur — 6 exemplaren
Major Black American Writers Through the Harlem Renaissance (Writers of English) (1995) 6 exemplaren
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Other Stories (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2009) 6 exemplaren
Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 6 exemplaren
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2008) 6 exemplaren
Carson McCullers' The Ballad of the Sad Café (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2005) 6 exemplaren
The Strong Light of the Canonical: Kafka, Freud, and Scholem as Revisionists of Jewish Culture and Thought 6 exemplaren
Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (2009) 5 exemplaren
William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 5 exemplaren
American and Canadian Women Poets 1930 - Present (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) (2002) 5 exemplaren
Sophocles' Oedipus Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, & Antigone (Bloom's Notes) (1996) 5 exemplaren
British Women Fiction Writers: 1900-1960, Volume One (Women Writers of English & Their Works) (1997) 5 exemplaren
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 5 exemplaren
Shakespeare's The Tempest 4 exemplaren
The New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism: Medieval-Early Renaissance (Chelsea House Library of Literary… (1985) — Redacteur — 4 exemplaren
The Critical Perspective, Volume 01: Medieval-Early Renaissance (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1985) 4 exemplaren
British Women Fiction Writers: 1900-1960, Volume Two (Women Writers of English & Their Works) (1997) 4 exemplaren
Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 4 exemplaren
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 4 exemplaren
Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 3 exemplaren
A Scholarly Look at the Diary of Anne Frank [Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations] (1999) 3 exemplaren
William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 3 exemplaren
William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) — Redacteur — 3 exemplaren
Willa Cather (Bloom's Major Novelists) 3 exemplaren
Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 3 exemplaren
The Critical Perspective, Twentieth Century Criticism of British and American Literature to 1904, COMPLETE SET OF 10… (1985) 3 exemplaren
William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2 (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 3 exemplaren
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (10-Volume Set) (1985) 3 exemplaren
Twentieth-Century British Literature: A-D (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1985) 3 exemplaren
Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, & Bartleby the Scrivener (Bloom's Notes) (1995) 2 exemplaren
Black American Poets & Dramatists: Before the Harlem Renaissance (Writers of English) (1994) 2 exemplaren
Servantes Loja e botës 2 exemplaren
Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley 2 exemplaren
Lord of the Flies: New Edition (Bloom's Guides) 2 exemplaren
William Shakespeare's the Taming of the Shrew (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 2 exemplaren
British Women Fiction Writers of the 19th Century (Women Writers of English and Their Work) (1997) 2 exemplaren
Mark Twain (Bloom's Major Novelists) 2 exemplaren
John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 2 exemplaren
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (Vol. 10 Contemporary) (1990) 1 exemplaar
Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Triumph of Life (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 1 exemplaar
The Mentor Book of Irish Poetry — Redacteur — 1 exemplaar
The literary criticism of John Ruskin 1 exemplaar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 10: Edwardian Literature (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1989) 1 exemplaar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 09: Late Victorian (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1989) 1 exemplaar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 05: Georgian (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) 1 exemplaar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 08: Mid-Victorian (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1989) 1 exemplaar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 06: Late Georgian (Chelsea House LIbrary of Literary Criticism) 1 exemplaar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 04: Restoration-Early Georgian (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1987) 1 exemplaar
Major Authors Edition of the New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism multivolume collection (1996) 1 exemplaar
La kabbala e la tradizione critica 1 exemplaar
SI DHE PERSE TE LEXOJME 1 exemplaar
british women fiction writers, 1900-1960 1 exemplaar
Modern critical essays (Series) 1 exemplaar
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (Vol. 8 Early Twentieth Century) (1989) 1 exemplaar
Shakespeare and Genius: A Lecture 1 exemplaar
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Kafka, Freud, Scholem 1 exemplaar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 02: Spenser and Shakespeare (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1986) 1 exemplaar
Till I End My Song 1 exemplaar
English Romantic Poetry Volume One 1 exemplaar
Major Author's Edition of the New Moultons Library of Literary Criticism: Victorian (Chelsea House Library of… (1988) 1 exemplaar
The Fourth Dimension of a Poem and Other Essays 1 exemplaar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 03: Elizabethan-Caroline (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) 1 exemplaar
'An Interview with Harold Bloom' 16 Nov 1985 1 exemplaar
William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1987) 1 exemplaar
'The Grand Comedian Visits the Bible' in NYRB 59/3, 23 February 2013 [review of Saramago's 'Cain'] 1 exemplaar
The Critical Perspective, Volume 07: Early Victorian (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1988) 1 exemplaar
Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 1 exemplaar
Bloom Harold 1 exemplaar
John Milton's Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Minor Poems (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 1 exemplaar
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (Vol. 3 Late Renaissance) (1987) 1 exemplaar
George Eliot's Silas Marner (Bloom's Notes) 1 exemplaar
Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 1 exemplaar
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (Vol. 2 Early Renaissance) (1986) 1 exemplaar
The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present (Vol. 1 Classical and Medieval) (1985) 1 exemplaar
Two Worlds of Marcel Proust 1 exemplaar
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A Recent Imagining: Interviews with Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, Paul De Man (1986) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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- 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) (toon alle 9)
14th Catalonia International Prize (2002)
Hans Christian Andersen Award (2005)
Fellow, American Philosophical Society (1995) - Korte biografie
- 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.
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- Bloom has edited several books with the same title for different series. Combine with care.
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The American religion door Bloom Harold
In this fascinating work of religious criticism, Harold Bloom examines a number of American-born faiths: Pentecostalism, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, Christian Science, Jehovah's Witnesses, Southern Baptism and Fundamentalism, and African American spirituality. He traces the distinctive features of American religion while asking provocative questions about the role religion plays in American culture and in each American's concept of his or her relationship to God. Bloom finds that our spiritual beliefs provide an exact portrait of our national character.… (meer)
In een dertigtal korte essays, vooral over klassiekers uit de wereldliteratuur, probeert Harold Bloom te laten proeven van het leesplezier. Niet te veel belerend, vooral analyserend.
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