Harold Bloom's Shakespeare,9780312239558

Harold Bloom's Shakespeare

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ISBN13: 9780312239558
ISBN10: 0312239556
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-01-12
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Harold Bloom is one of the most influential-and controversial-of contemporary Shakespeare critics. These essays examine the sources and impact of his Shakespearean criticism. Through focused and sustained study of this writer as literary icon and his Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human , the essays address a wide range of issues, from the cultural role of Shakespeare to the ethics of literary theory and criticism.

Author Biography

Christy Desmet is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Reading Shakespeare's Characters: Rhetoric, Ethics, and Identity, and co-editor of Shakespeare and Appropriation.

Robert Sawyer is Assistant Professor of English at East Tennessee State University, and co-editor of Shakespeare and Appropriation.

Table of Contents

Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1(18)
Christy Desmet
Robert Sawyer
Part 1 Bardolatry/Bardography
Bloom's Shakespeare
19(8)
Jay L. Halio
Bloom with a View
27(6)
Terence Hawkes
The Case for Bardolatry: Harold Bloom Rescues Shakespeare from the Critics
33(10)
William W. Kerrigan
Power, Pathos, Character
43(22)
Gary Taylor
Inventing Us
65(6)
Hugh Kenner
Part 2 Reading and Writing Shakespearean Character
Bloom, Bardolatry, and Characterolatry
71(10)
Richard Levin
On the Value of Being a Cartoon, in Literature and in Life
81(16)
Sharon O'Dair
Shakespeare: The Orientation of the Human
97(12)
Mustapha Fahmi
``The play's the thing'': Shakespeare's Critique of Character (and Harold Bloom)
109(16)
William R. Morse
On Harold Bloom's Nontheatrical Praise for Shakespeare's Lovers: Much Ado About Nothing and Antony and Cleopatra
125(20)
Herbert Weil
Part 3 Anxieties of Influence
Romanticism Lost: Bloom and the Twilight of Literary Shakespeare
145(22)
Edward Pechter
Looking for Mr. Goodbard: Swinburne, Resentment Criticism, and the Invention of Harold Bloom
167(14)
Robert Sawyer
Shakespeare and the Invention of Humanism: Bloom on Race and Ethnicity
181(18)
James R. Andreas
Shakespeare in Transit: Bloom, Shakespeare, and Contemporary Women's Writing
199(14)
Caroline Cakebread
Part 4 Shakespeare as Cultural Capital
Harold Bloom as Shakespearean Pedagogue
213(14)
Christy Desmet
King Lear in Their Time: On Bloom and Cavell on Shakespeare
227(20)
Lawrence F. Rhu
``I am sure this Shakespeare will not do'': Anti-Semitism and the Limits of Bardolatry
247(12)
David M. Schiller
The 2% Solution: What Harold Bloom Forgot
259(10)
Linda Charnes
References 269(18)
Index 287

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