Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, New Edition - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791097935 ISBN 13: 9780791097939

Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008

Synopsis

Presents a collection of critical essays on the play that analyze its structure, characters, and themes.

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About the Author

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. He is the author of 30 books, including Shelley's Mythmaking (1959), The Visionary Company (1961), Blake's Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), Agon: Toward a Theory of Revisionism (1982), The American Religion (1992), The Western Canon (1994), and Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection (1996). The Anxiety of Influence (1973) sets forth Professor Bloom's provocative theory of the literary relationships between the great writers and their predecessors. His most recent books include Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), a 1998 National Book Award finalist, How to Read and Why (2000), Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (2002), Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003), Where Shall Wisdom be Found (2004), and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005). In 1999, Professor Bloom received the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism. He has also received the International Prize of Catalonia, the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico, and the Hans Christian Andersen Bicentennial Prize of Denmark.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0791097935
• ISBN 13: 9780791097939
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 172
• Editor: Bloom Sterling Professor Of Humanities Harold