How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom

A new book by Americas leading literary critic on the uses of deep reading Practical. inspirational and learned. How to Read and Why is Blooms manifesto for the preponderance of written culture.In the vastly influential The Western Canon. Harold Bloom outlined what we should read to understand a greater depth of the individual self. How to Read and Why continues the argument and focusses on how we use literature in order to gain . deeper self-awareness Poems. stories. novels. plays and parables are all analysed as forms of writing as immersion. the language of individuality and Shakespeares sonnets. the short stories of Hemingway and de Cervantes. the novels of Proust and Calvino. Sophocless Oedipus Rex and Marks Gospel Harold Bloom also addresses the idea of ??why we in...