How to read and why
By: Harold Bloom.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Reading; Literature, Modern -- Appreciation; Literature, Modern -- Study and teaching; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
Table of contents: title: Short stories. Introduction --            Ivan Turgenev. “Bezhin Lea'' -- “Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands'' -- Anton Chekhov. “The Kiss'' -- “The Student'' -- “The Lady with the Dog'' -- Guy de Maupassant. “Madame Tellier's Establishment'' -- “The Horla'' -- Ernest Hemingway. “Hills Like White Elephants'' -- “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen'' -- “The Snows of Kilimanjaro'' -- “A Sea Change'' -- Flannery O'Connor. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find'' -- “Good Country People'' -- “A View of the Woods'' -- Vladimir Nabokov. “The Vane Sisters'' -- Jorge Luis Borges. “Tlon, Ugbar, Orbis Tertius'' -- Tommaso Landolfi. “Gogol's Wife'' -- Italo Calvino. Invisible Cities -- Summary observations -- Poems. Introduction -- Housman, Blake, Landor, and Tennyson -- A. E. Housman. “Into My Heart an Air That Kills'' -- William Blake. “The Sick Rose'' -- Walter Savage Landor -- “On His Seventy-fifth Birthday'' -- Alfred Lord Tennyson. “The Eagle'' -- “Ulysses'' -- Robert Browning. “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'' -- Walt Whitman. Song of Myself -- Dickinson, Bronte, Popular Ballads, and ``Tom O'Bedlam'' -- Emily Dickinson. Poem 1260, “Because That You Are Going'' -- Emily Bronte. “Stanzas: Often Rebuked, Yet Always Back Returning'' -- Popular Ballads. “Sir Patrick Spence'' -- “The Unquiet Grave'' -- Anonymous -- “Tom O'Bedlam'' -- William Shakespeare. Sonnet 121, “'Tis Better to Be Vile Than Vile Esteemed'' -- Sonnet 129, “Th' Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame'' -- Sonnet 144, “Two Loves I Have, of Comfort and Despair'' -- John Milton. Paradise Lost -- William Wordsworth. “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal'' -- “My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold'' -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner -- Shelley and Keats. Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The Triumph of Life -- John Keats -- “La Belle Dame Sans Merci'' -- Summary Observations -- Novels, Part I.      Introduction -- Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes -- The Charterhouse of Parma / Stendhal -- Emma / Jane Austen -- Great Expectations / Charles Dickens -- Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The Portrait of a Lady / Henry James -- In Search of Lost Time / Marcel Proust -- The Magic Mountain / Thomas Mann -- Summary Observations -- Plays. Introduction -- Hamlet / William Shakespeare -- Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen -- The Importance of Being Earnest / Oscar Wilde -- Summary Observations -- Novels, Part II. Moby-Dick / Herman Melville -- As I Lay Dying / William Faulkner -- Miss Lonelyhearts / Nathanael West -- The Crying of Lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon -- Blood Meridian / Cormac McCarthy -- Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison -- Song of Solomon / Toni Morrison -- Summary Observations -- Epilogue: Completing the Work.