How to read and why
By: Harold Bloom.
Edition: 1st Touchtone ed.
Publisher: Touchstone Books; Scribner
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Reading; Literature -- Appreciation; Literature, Modern -- Study and teaching; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
Description: "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.