{"product_id":"the-american-canon-literary-genius-from-emerson-to-pynchon-9781598536409","title":"The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon","description":"\u003cb\u003eOur foremost literary critic celebrates the American pantheon of great writers from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, to Ursula K. LeGuin, Philip Roth, and Thomas Pynchon.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHarold Bloom is our greatest living student of literature, \"a colossus among critics\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) and a \"master entertainer\" (\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e). Over the course of a remarkable career spanning more than half a century, in such best-selling books as \u003ci\u003eThe Western Canon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShakespeare: The Invention of the Human\u003c\/i\u003e, he transformed the way we look at the masterworks of western literature. Now, in the first collection devoted to his illuminating writings specifically on American literature, Bloom reflects on the surprising ways American writers have influenced each other across more than two centuries. \u003ci\u003eThe American Canon\u003c\/i\u003e gathers five decades of Bloom's essays, occasional pieces, and introductions as well as excerpts from several of his books, weaving them together into an unrivalled tour of the great American bookshelf. Always a champion of aesthetic power, Bloom tells the story of our national literature in terms of artistic struggle against powerful predecessors and the American thirst for selfhood. All of the visionary American writers who have long preoccupied Bloom--Emerson and Whitman, Hawthorne and Melville, and Dickinson, Faulkner, Crane, Frost, Stevens, and Bishop--are here, along with Hemingway, James, O'Connor, Ellison, Hurston, LeGuin, Ashbery and many others. Bloom's enthusiasm for these American geniuses is contagious, and he reminds us how these writers have shaped our sense of who we are, and how they can summon us to be yet better versions of ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781598536409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019 pg. 71\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harold Bloom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36661327560860,"sku":"9781598536409","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e4121cb5-a286-4ebc-825e-86293f9114d6.jpg?v=1603899185","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-american-canon-literary-genius-from-emerson-to-pynchon-9781598536409","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}