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Shakespeare - The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
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Shakespeare - The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
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List price R579
Loot Price R447
Discovery Miles 4 470
You Save R132 (23%)
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Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of
The Western Canon, has spent a professional lifetime reading,
writing about and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial
interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare's genius in a radical
and provocative re-reading of the plays. How to understand
Shakespeare, whose ability so far exceeds his predecessors and
successors, whose genius has defied generations of critics'
explanations, whose work is of greater influence in the modern age
even than the Bible? This book is a visionary summation of Harold
Bloom's reading of Shakespeare and in it he expounds a brilliant
and far-reaching critical theory: that Shakespeare was, through his
dramatic characters, the inventor of human personality as we have
come to understand it. In short, Shakespeare invented our
understanding of ourselves. He knows us better than we do: 'The
plays remain the outward limit of human achievement: aesthetically,
cognitively, in certain ways morally, even spiritually. They abide
beyond the end of the mind's reach; we cannot catch up to them.
Shakespeare will go on explaining us in part because he invented
us... ' In a chronological survey of each of the plays, Bloom
explores the supra-human personalities of Shakespeare's great
protagonists: Hamlet, Lear, Falstaff, Rosalind, Juliet. They
represent the apogee of Shakespeare's art, that art which is
Britain's most powerful and dominant cultural contribution to the
world, here vividly recovered by an inspired and wise scholar at
the height of his powers.
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