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The Shadow of a Great Rock A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible

Name: The Shadow of a Great Rock
Author: Harold Bloom

Auteur: Harold Bloom

Taal: Engels

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Engels
Hardcover
9780300166835
02 september 2011
320 pagina's

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Harold Bloom

"Harold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. As The Paris Review has pointed out, ""no critic in the English language since Samuel Johnson has been more prolific."" His more than thirty books include The Best Poems of the English Language, The Art of Reading Poetry, and The Book of J. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the International Prize of Catalonia, and the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico."

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The King James Bible stands at the sublime summit of literature in English, sharing the honor only with Shakespeare, Harold Bloom contends in the opening pages of this illuminating literary tour. Distilling the insights acquired from a significant portion of his career as a brilliant critic and teacher, he offers readers at last the book he has been writing all my long life, a magisterial and intimately perceptive reading of the King James Bible as a literary masterpiece. Bloom calls it an inexplicable wonder that a rather undistinguished group of writers could bring forth such a magnificent work of literature, and he credits William Tyndale as their fountainhead. Reading the King James Bible alongside Tyndale's Bible, the Geneva Bible, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts, Bloom highlights how the translators and editors improved upon-or, in some cases, diminished-the earlier versions. He invites readers to hear the baroque inventiveness in such sublime books as the Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, and Job, and alerts us to the echoes of the King James Bible in works from the Romantic period to the present day. Throughout, Bloom makes an impassioned and convincing case for reading the King James Bible as literature, free from dogma and with an appreciation of its enduring aesthetic value.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 september 2011
Aantal pagina's: 320
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Hoofdauteur: Harold Bloom
Tweede Auteur: Prof. Harold Bloom
Hoofduitgeverij: Yale University Press

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
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Verpakking breedte: 152 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 219 mm
Verpakking lengte: 219 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 504 g

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Religie, Spiritualiteit & Filosofie

Poëzie, Bloemlezingen & Letterkunde

Literatuurwetenschap

Religie

Taalwetenschap

Christendom

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