FOURTH ESTATE - 9781841150390
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 analyzed 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".
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