Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (Bloom's Notes)

ISBN 10: 0791040623 ISBN 13: 9780791040621

Publisher: Chelsea House Pub, 1995

Synopsis

Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas

About this title

About the Author

Considered the world's cheif authority on Shakespeare, Harold Bloom is now in his 46th year of teaching at Yale University. His latest book How to Read and Why joins a prodigious literary output which includes the editorship of this flagship study guide series.

From School Library Journal

Grade 11 Up-Bloom has assembled what he refers to as "...a representative selection of the most useful critical essays on the late Ralph Waldo Ellison's masterwork...." The 12 articles include such diverse views as the feminist analysis in Claudia Tate's search for the "Invisible Women," Philippe Whyte's meditations on what he believes are "Trickster" elements of the story, and Alan Nadel's tracings of the relationship of this novel to Twain's Huckleberry Finn, as well as the critical interpretations of Kenneth Burke, Joseph Frank, Kun Jong Lee, William Lyne, Berndt Ostendorf, Thomas Schaub, and Robert B. Stepto. These highly intellectual, esoteric essays are well documented, and the book concludes with brief paragraphs about the contributors. Although for a limited audience, this comprehensive volume will be useful where an in-depth critical analysis of Invisible Man is part of the English curriculum.
Lynda Short, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Lexington, KY
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791040623
• ISBN 13: 9780791040621
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 72
• Editor: Bloom Harold