Dante's Inferno (Br) (Pbk)(Oop) (Bloom's Notes)
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (724 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0791060187 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 471 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
-- Presents concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work -- Provides multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters -- Digests of critical extracts prefaced by headnotes
"Best book of the last 1000 years!" according to luca rinaldi. It is very difficult to review so superb a work but i will try:in short there are two basics things in the Divina Commedia that attract the reader:one is a very comprehensive descripition of medieval society,history,religion and science made by a first class scholar like Dante Alighieri,the other is a most penetrating and revealing analysis of the "ethernal" human being with all the good and the bad everyone of us experiences in his daily life.In the Commedia every aspect of life is examined and accounted for.But i think that the real magic of Dante is the almost super-natural ability to express. "quality criticism, well selected by Bloom" according to A Customer. Perhaps the Seattle teacher should learn what the word "editor" means: Bloom's role in this series is an EDITOR, not a WRITER. What Bloom does in this, and many other series, is sort through chaff to find the wheat of criticism, and presents it to his readers so that they will have a rounder view of the literature at hand. As always, some of this work is above the heads of all but the finest readers, but in Bloom's collection there is very little of the self-serving nonsense that passes for criticism these days. Kudos to Bloom Brontosaurus!. To Heck and Back A Customer Truely a classic. A must read for everyone who can even remotely claim to know literature. Read it--now--you won't regret it.