Genius : (Record no. 4254)
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| control field | 20231026113602.0 |
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| 020 ## - ISBN | |
| International Standard Book Number | 1841153982 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MCHV Library |
| 041 ## - Language | |
| Language | English |
| 082 ## - DDC NUMBER | |
| Edition number | 22 |
| Classification number | 153.98 |
| Book Number | BLO |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bloom, Harold |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Genius : |
| Sub Title | a mosaic of one hundred exemplary creative minds / |
| Statement of responsibility | Harold Bloom |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Fourth Estate, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2002. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Pages | xviii, 814p. : |
| Other Details | ill. ; |
| Dimension | 24cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | From the Bible to Ralph Ellison, America's most prominent and bestselling literary critic takes an enlightening look at the concept of genius through the ages in a celebration of the greatest creative writers of all time.<br/><br/>With The Western Canon, Yale-based critical eminence Bloom tapped into a strain of the cultural zeitgeist looking for authoritative takes on what to read. Bloom here follows up with 6–10 pages each on 100 "geniuses" of literature (all deceased)—pointing to the major works, outlining the major achievements therein, showing us how to recognize them for ourselves. Despite the book's length, Bloom's mostly male geniuses are, as he notes "certainly not 'the top one hundred' in anyone's judgement, my own included. I wanted to write about these." Bloom backs up his choices with such effortless and engaging erudition that their idiosyncrasy and casualness become strengths. While organized under the rubric of the 10 Kabalistic Sefirot, "attributes at once of God and of Adam Kadmon or Divine Man, God's Image," Bloom's chosen figures are associated by his own brilliant (and sometimes jabbingly provocative) forms of attention, from a linkage of Dr. Johnson, Goethe and Freud to one of Dickens, Celan and Ellison (with a few others in between them). A pleasant surprise is the plethora of lesser-known Latin American authors, from Luz Vaz de Camões to José Maria Eça de Queiroz and Alejo Carpentier. Many familiar greats are here, too, as is a definition of genius. "This book is not a work of analysis or of close reading, but of surmise and juxtaposition," Bloom writes, and as such readers will find it appropriately enthusiastic and wild. |
| 650 ## - Subject | |
| Subject | Nonfiction |
| 650 ## - Subject | |
| Subject | Literary Criticism |
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| Subject | Literature |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Location (home branch) | Koha item type | Koha date last seen | Accession No. | Koha full call number | Koha issues (times borrowed) | Date acquired | Sublocation or collection (holding branch) | Withdrawn status | Not for loan | Damaged status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Lost status |
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| MCHV Library | Books | 01/25/2023 | HV3989 | 153.98 BLO | 01/25/2023 | MCHV Library | Dewey Decimal Classification |