Overview
The Crucible still has permanence and relevance a half century after its initial publication. This powerful political drama set amidst the Salem witch trials is commonly understood as Arthur Miller's poignant response to McCarthyism. Filled with fresh essays about the play, the new edition of this invaluable literary guide features a bibliography and notes on the essay contributors.
Full Product Details
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
Imprint: Chelsea House Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 15.90cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 23.90cm
Weight: 0.465kg
ISBN: 9780791098288
ISBN 10: 0791098281
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 30 May 2008
Recommended Age: Grades 9 and up
Audience:
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
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Secondary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Each attractive volume presents recent essays by noted critics who examine in detail aspects of a single literary work...Highly recommended for academic collections.
"""As always with Chelsea critical books, each volume contains the best of what has been written about the authors."" ""Each attractive volume presents recent essays by noted critics who examine in detail aspects of a single literary work...Highly recommended for academic collections."" ""Students preparing research papers and students boning up for class will reach eagerly for these well designed additions to accessible literary criticism..."""
Author Information
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.
