Thứ Bảy, 26 tháng 8, 2017

William Shakespeares Othello - Blooms Modern Critical Interpretations Series

The most striking difference between Othello and Shakespeare's other tragedies is its more intimate scale. Since the play focuses on personal rather than public life, Othello's private descent into jealous obsession is rendered all the more chilling to behold.
 
 
This invaluable literary reference guide to one of Shakespeare's greatest plays contains a selection of the finest contemporary criticism, an introductory essay by Shakespearean scholar Harold Bloom, an index for easy reference, a bibliography, and a chronology of the playwright's life.
 
 
Volumes in the "Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations" series are intended for in-depth study of literary classics through eight to 12 full-length essays that represent the best criticism available on a specific work.

William Shakespeares Hamlet - Blooms Modern Critical Interpretations Series

In Shakespeare's powerful drama of destiny and revenge, "Hamlet", the troubled prince of Denmark, must overcome his own self-doubt and avenge the murder of his father.
 
 
This study guides to one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. It contains a selection of contemporary criticism of "Hamlet".


William Shakespeares As You Like It - Blooms Modern Critical Interpretations Series

- Presents the most important 20th century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature


- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism - Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index - Introductory essay by Harold Bloom

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice New Edition - Blooms Modern Critical Interpretations Series

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is a richly complicated and, to some, a deeply disturbing work. Several themes are presented within the framework of a traditional comedy that calls for the triumph of young lovers over their restrictive elders.


Yet, the play, with its highly debated portrayal of the moneylender Shylock, resists easy categorization, incorporating elements of tragedy and romance in equal portion. This new edition of critical essays features an introduction by Shakespearean scholar Harold Bloom, a chronology of the Bard's life, a bibliography, and an index for quick reference

William Shakespeare Macbeth New Edition - Blooms Modern Critical Interpretations Series

Macbeth is William Shakespeare's stark tale of a tormented nobleman driven to pursue a murderous plot by his ambition to usurp the throne of Scotland. The tautly constructed tragedy is a ruthlessly economic drama, marked by a continuous eloquence that is astonishing even for Shakespeare.


This new edition of the Scottish play features full-length critical essays suited for in-depth study by high school and college students alike. A bibliography, a chronology of the Bard's life, and an index complete the volume.


William Faulkners The Sound and the Fury - Blooms Modern Critical Interpretations Series

The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner's fourth novel, was his first attempt at a wholly self-conscious style.

Faulkner's willingness to experiment affords his readers no stable perspective from which to comprehend the decline of the Compson family. 

This title includes critical essays on Faulkner's work.

Toni Morrisons Sula - Blooms Modern Critical Interpretations Series

Through their girlhood years they share everything--perceptions, judgments, yearnings, secrets, even crime--until Sula gets out, out of the Bottom, the hilltop neighborhood where beneath the sporting life of the men hanging around the place in headrags and soft felt hats there hides a fierce resentment at failed crops, lost jobs, thieving insurance men, bug-ridden flour...at the invisible line that cannot be overstepped.Sula leaps it and roams the cities of America for ten years.


Then she returns to the town, to her friend. But Nel is a wife now, settled with her man and her three children. She belongs. She accommodates to the Bottom, where you avoid the hand of God by getting in it, by staying "upright, " helping out at church suppers, asking after folks--where you deal with evil by surviving it.Not Sula. As willing to feel pain as to give pain, she can never accommodate.