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Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

Harold Bloom

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English
Chelsea House Publishers
30 December 2008
Presents a collection of critical essays on the play that analyze its structure, characters, and themes.

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Imprint:   Chelsea House Publishers
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 241mm,  Width: 163mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   435g
ISBN:   9780791097939
ISBN 10:   0791097935
Pages:   172
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Recommended Age:   Grades 9 and up
Audience:   Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

"""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..."""


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