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An edition of How to read and why (2000)

How to read and why

1st Touchtone ed.

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  • ★★ ★ 2.7 (3 ratings) ·
  • 35 Want to read
  • 4 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

"Bloom instructs readers in how to immerse themselves in the different literary forms.".

"Probing discussions of the works of writers such as William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, and William Faulkner highlight the varied challenges and delights found in short stories, poems, novels, and plays.

Bloom not only provides guidance on how to read a text but also illustrates what such reading can bring - aesthetic pleasure, increased individuality and self-knowledge, and the lifetime companionship of the most engaging and complex literary characters."--BOOK JACKET.

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Touchstone Books, Scribner
Language
English
Pages
283

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Subjects

Literature, History and criticism, Modern Literature, Appreciation, Literature, Modern, Study and teaching, Reading, Literature, Modern -- Appreciation, Literature, Modern -- Study and teaching, Literature, Modern -- History and criticism, Canons littéraires, Letterkunde, Lektüre, Books and reading, Modernism in literature, Weltliteratur, Livres et lecture, New York Times reviewed, Literature, modern, history and criticism

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Dewey Decimal Class
801/.9
Library of Congress
PN83 .B57 2001, LB1050 .B56 2000, PN 83 .B57 2001, PN83 .B57 2000, PN83.B57 2001, PN83.B57 2000

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Pagination
283 p. ;
Number of pages
283

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OL3952847M
ISBN 10
0684859076, 0684859068
LCCN
2001049374, 00708611
OCLC/WorldCat
43940116
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11827
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20943
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Bloom draws on his experience as critic, teacher, and prolific reader to plumb the great books for their sustaining wisdom. Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self. Always dazzling in his ability to draw connections between texts across continents and centuries, Bloom instructs readers in how to immerse themselves in the different literary forms. Bloom not only provides illuminating guidance on how to read a text but also illustrates what such reading can bring -- aesthetic pleasure, increased individuality and self-knowledge, and the lifetime companionship of the most engaging and complex literary characters. -- From publisher's description.

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