Ruin the Sacred Truths (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Harold Bloom
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Jews or Jewish life, Christianity, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Biblical times
This short, challenging book is the text of Harold Bloom’s Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University for the 1987-1988 academic year. To understand it, some awareness of Bloom’s principal concepts argued in his fifteen-or-so previously published works is required.
Harold Bloom received his B.A. degree from Cornell University in 1951 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1955; he has taught at the latter since that time, attaining the Sterling Professorship of the Humanities. He is commonly regarded as a leading luminary of the most distinguished university English...
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