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020			_a9781841150390
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100			_aHarold Bloom _959585
245			_aHow to read and why
260			_aLondon _bFourth Estate _c2000
300			_a283p. _bPB _c20x13cm.
365			_2English _a4733 _b1120.00 _c₹ _d1400.00 _e20% _f11-10-2022
520			_aA new book by America's leading literary critic on the uses of deep reading. Practical, inspirational and learned, How to Read and Why is Bloom's manifesto for the preponderance of written culture. In the vastly influential The Western Canon, Harold Bloom outlined what we should read to understand a greater depth of the individual self. How to Read and Why continues the argument and focusses on how we use literature in order to gain deeper self-awareness. Poems, stories, novels, plays and parables are all analysed as forms of writing as immersion, the language of individuality and inwardness: Shakespeare's sonnets, the short stories of Hemingway and de Cervantes, the novels of Proust and Calvino, Sophocles's Oedipus Rex and Mark's Gospel. Harold Bloom also addresses the idea of why we read: increased individuality, respite from visual bombardment, a return to 'deep feeling' and 'deep thinking'. How to Read and Why is an essential book for any reader, an introduction to the world of written culture, an inspirational self-help book for students and teachers alike.
650			_aLiterary Criticism _959586
650			_aEnglish Literature _959587
700			_aBLOOM (Harold) _959588
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