Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when faster and easier electronic media threatens to eclipse the practice of reading, Bloom draws on his experience as critic, teacher, and prolific reader to plumb the great books for their sustaining wisdom. Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self. His ultimate faith in the restorative power of literature resonates on every page of this infinitely rewarding and important book.
Bloom is a literary critic, and currently a Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. Since the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than 20 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He has edited hundreds of anthologies.
随手翻,随便摘录几句你们品品 “但是《帕尔马修道院》与《罗密欧与朱丽叶》的密切关系,要强于与拿破仑以滑铁卢告终的巨人生活” “因为爱玛·伍德豪斯和伊丽莎白·班内特之间的相似性和差异性对我们努力以这两部小说应得的方式阅读它们,是非常有用的” “他是一位好玩的犹太...
评分记得五年前刚刚读完《西方正典》,我在扉页上写:此书可缩减为现有篇幅的四分之一。五年后《如何读,为什么读》中译本问世,我要恭喜布鲁姆和他的读者们——他做到了。 如果说《西方正典》是布鲁姆的专题研讨课,那么《如何读,为什么读》就是他的西方文学专题欣赏课。当你读...
评分这位读者的概括不错。摘录如下: 在《西方正典》中,布鲁姆说道,文学最大的功用就是教人以孤独,在《如》一书中,布鲁姆又指出文学的功用是教人战胜孤独和自我治愈。这看似矛盾,其实是二而一的,在这种孤独教育中,人发现了自我,并且使得自我更加有厚度。不过坏的文学会让人...
评分在西方文学研究界,哈罗德•布鲁姆是个十足的异类,一方面,他列出的那些伟大的书的清单,被英国批评家约翰•凯里讥讽为 “当然不是给人类看的,它们倒更像是发送给上帝的期末汇报,好让他老人家看看他的人间子民们是多么具有文化修养“,把布鲁姆说得像个陈腐的学院...
评分发现可以比较快速的用这个,读自己不熟悉作者的作品
评分序言很好。正文中提到的书目,之前读过的会有新的理解,没读过的更多是当做书单了,比如说 Hazlitt 和 Samuel Johnson 准备有空读一下,还有不少莎士比亚需要重读。布鲁姆真是喜欢莎士比亚啊,最高的赞美就是 Shakespearean... 另外司汤达的《帕尔马修道院》已经是第三次遇到了,除这本外还有卡尔维诺《为什么读经典》以及帕慕克 Other Colors..
评分下午在图书馆休息,顺便拎出来看了看,老谈possession by memory,想起自己爱在嘴边背的那些诗。irony那个讲法感觉被认识的一个老师偷学走了。Housman常读常新,What are those blue remembered hills...看前言想起现在学校英语系研究生清一色gender and sexuality和African...
评分"find what truly comes near to you that can be used for weighing and considering" 关于阅读的意义,本书的序言是读过的最好的。作品分析只读了自己有所了解的作品,剩下的等着以后慢慢看好了
评分发现可以比较快速的用这个,读自己不熟悉作者的作品
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