Kabbalah and Criticism

by Harold Bloom

Overview

While Bloom is appreciated for his originality, range and clarity, less notice has been taken of the remarkable unity that is displayed in his writings from the earlier studies on Shelley, Blake and Romanticism, up to A Map of Misreading. That unity is brilliantly highlighted in Kabbalah and Criticism.

Providing a study of the Kabbalah itself, its great commentators, the 'revisionary ratios' they employed and of its significance as a model for contemporary criticism, Kabbalah and Criticism is an indispensable book for all students of literature as well as for all those who are fascinated by this singularly rich body of mystical writings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826417374
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/23/2005
Series:	Continuum Impacts , #33
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	76
Sales rank:	720,636
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.16(d)

About the Author

Harold Bloom (b. 1930) is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor at New York University, and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. He is the author of more than twenty books, including The Anxiety of Influence; Deconstruction and Criticism; The Book of J; The Western Canon; Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human; and Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

Hometown:

New York, New York and New Haven, Connecticut

Date of Birth:

July 11, 1930

Date of Death:

October 14, 2019

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., Cornell University, 1951; Ph.D., Yale University, 1955

Table of Contents

Prologue: That, too, I must have knownKabbalahKabbalah and CriticismThe Necessity of MisreadingEpilogue: The Name Spoken Over the Water