The Labyrinth - Bloom's Literary Themes

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Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Series Introduction by Harold Bloom: Themes and Metaphors -- Volume Introduction by Harold Bloom: Into the Living Labyrinth: Reflections and Aphorisms -- The Aeneid (Virgil): Virgil's Aeneid / Penelope Reed Doob, in The Idea of the Labyrinth: From Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages (1990) -- The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser) The Prophetic Moment / Angus Fletcher, in The Prophetic Moment: An Essay on Spenser (1971) -- The Garden of Forking Paths (Jorge Luis Borges) Borges and the Legacy of The Garden of Forking Paths' / Jeffrey Gray -- The General in His Labyrinth (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) Of Utopias, Labyrinths and Unfulfilled Dreams in The General in His Labyrinth / Maria Odette Canivell -- Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) The Poor Labyrinth: The Theme of Social Injustice in Dickens's Great Expectations in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1954) / John H. Hagan Jr. -- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Henry Fielding) 'The winding labyrinths of nature': The Labyrinth and Providential Order in Tom Jones / Anthony W. Lee -- The House of the Spirits (Isabelle Allende) Of Labyrinths in Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits / Maria Odette Canivell -- If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino) Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's a Night a Traveler and the Labyrinth / Aimable Twagilimana -- In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?-#77 (Lady Mary Wroth) The Maze Within: Lady Mary Wroth's 'strang labournith' in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus / Margaret M. Morlier -- Inferno (Dante Alighieri) The Poetry of the Divine Comedy Karl Vossler, in Medieval Culture: An Introduction to Dante and his Times (1929) -- Kubla Kahn (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Symbolic Labyrinths in Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan / Robert C. Evans -- The Labyrinth of Solitude (Octavio Paz) The Labyrinth of Solitude in Understanding Octavio Paz (1999) / Jose Quiroga -- Metamorphoses (Ovid) Daedalus in the Labyrinth of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Classical World (1998) / Barbara Pavlock -- A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare) A Midsummer Night's Dream in The Common Man (1950) / G. K. Chesterton -- The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco) The Name of the Rose and the Labyrinths of Reading / Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis -- Paradise Lost (John Milton) The Art of the Maze in Book IX of Paradise Lost / Kathleen M. Swaim -- The Second Coming (William Butler Yeats) The Secrets of the Sphinx: The Labyrinth in The Second Coming' / Josephine A. McQuail -- Ulysses (James Joyce) James Joyce's Ulysses: Dedalus in the Labyrinth / Andrew J. Shipe -- Acknowledgments -- Index. Publisher Marketing: This title discusses the role of labyrinth in ' The Garden of Forking Paths', 'Great Expectations', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'Paradise Lost' and other literary works. 20 essays and critical analyses help students to unravel this complex theme.

Contributor Bio:  Bloom, Harold, Ed Harold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than thirty books include The Best Poems of the English Language, The Art of Reading Poetry, and The Book of J. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the International Prize of Catalonia, and the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico.