Bloom's Guides
Subtitle: William Golding's Lord of the Flies
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Edition: New ed.
Series: Bloom's guides
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604138146
Subjects: Golding, William, -- 1911-1993; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc., in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Biographical sketch; title: The story behind the story; title: List of characters; title: Summary and analysis; title: Critical views: David Anderson on Golding's difficult Christianity; title: Kathleen Woodard discusses the capacity for evil in children; title: Arnold Kruger takes a new look at the character of Simon; title: James R. Baker considers Golding, Huxley, and modernity; title: Berthold Schoene-Harwood on destructive masculinity in Lord of the flies; title: Paul Crawford on human depravity in the novel; title: Mark Kinkead-Weekes and Ian Gregor address the symbolism of the conch; title: Paula Alida Ray on the absence of the female in Lord of the flies; title: Theodore Dalrymple reflects on human depravity in the novel; title: Peter Edgerly Firchow examines the implausible beginning and ending of Lord of the flies; title: Works by William Golding; title: Annotated bibliography.