The Resource Lear : the great image of authority, Harold Bloom
Lear : the great image of authority, Harold Bloom
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The item Lear : the great image of authority, Harold Bloom represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
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The item Lear : the great image of authority, Harold Bloom represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- "Harold Bloom, regarded by some as the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, presents an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of King Lear--the third in his series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities, hailed as Bloom's "last love letter to the shaping spirit of his imagination" on the front page of The New York Times Book Review. King Lear is perhaps the most poignant character in literature. The aged, abused monarch--a man in his eighties, like Harold Bloom himself--is at once the consummate figure of authority and the classic example of the fall from majesty. He is widely agreed to be William Shakespeare's most moving, tragic hero. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Lear with wisdom, joy, exuberance, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character: Just as we encounter one Emma Bovary or Hamlet when we are seventeen and another when we are forty, Bloom writes about his shifting understanding--over the course of his own lifetime--of Lear, so that this book also explores an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity. Bloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, wrestling with the often tragic choices Shakespeare's characters make. He delivers that kind of exhilarating intimacy, pathos, and clarity in Lear"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xi, 160 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501164194
- Label
- Lear : the great image of authority
- Title
- Lear
- Title remainder
- the great image of authority
- Statement of responsibility
- Harold Bloom
- Subject
-
- Kings and rulers in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Drama
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Renaissance
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare
- Lear, King of England (Legendary character)
- Lear, King of England (Legendary character)
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- King Lear (Shakespeare, William)
- Kings and rulers in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Harold Bloom, regarded by some as the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, presents an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of King Lear--the third in his series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities, hailed as Bloom's "last love letter to the shaping spirit of his imagination" on the front page of The New York Times Book Review. King Lear is perhaps the most poignant character in literature. The aged, abused monarch--a man in his eighties, like Harold Bloom himself--is at once the consummate figure of authority and the classic example of the fall from majesty. He is widely agreed to be William Shakespeare's most moving, tragic hero. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Lear with wisdom, joy, exuberance, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character: Just as we encounter one Emma Bovary or Hamlet when we are seventeen and another when we are forty, Bloom writes about his shifting understanding--over the course of his own lifetime--of Lear, so that this book also explores an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity. Bloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, wrestling with the often tragic choices Shakespeare's characters make. He delivers that kind of exhilarating intimacy, pathos, and clarity in Lear"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bloom, Harold
- Dewey number
- 822.3/3
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR2993.L4
- LC item number
- B57 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Shakespeare's personalities
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Lear
- Shakespeare, William
- Kings and rulers in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Lear
- Kings and rulers in literature
- Label
- Lear : the great image of authority, Harold Bloom
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1926476
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xi, 160 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501164194
- Lccn
- 2017061767
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781501164194
- (OCoLC)989964006
- Label
- Lear : the great image of authority, Harold Bloom
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1926476
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xi, 160 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501164194
- Lccn
- 2017061767
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781501164194
- (OCoLC)989964006
Subject
- Kings and rulers in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Drama
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Renaissance
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare
- Lear, King of England (Legendary character)
- Lear, King of England (Legendary character)
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- King Lear (Shakespeare, William)
- Kings and rulers in literature
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