Bloom's literary themes

Cover......Page 1
Bloom's Literary Themes......Page 2
Civil Disobedience......Page 6
ISBN 9781604134391 (hc : alk. paper)......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Series Introduction by Harold Bloom:
Themes and Metaphors......Page 12
Volume Introduction by Harold Bloom......Page 16
1984 (George Orwell)......Page 18
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)......Page 38
Antigone (Sophocles)......Page 48
The Plays of Aristophanes......Page 66
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” (Herman Melville)......Page 76
Billy Budd (Herman Melville)......Page 90
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)......Page 106
“Civil Disobedience” (Henry David Thoreau)......Page 118
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)......Page 134
The Crucible (Arthur Miller)......Page 146
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)......Page 158
The Poetry of Langston Hughes......Page 168
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)......Page 180
Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)......Page 192
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)......Page 214
The Speeches of Malcolm X......Page 230
Native Son (Richard Wright)......Page 242
The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)......Page 250
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)......Page 260
The Trial (Franz Kafka)......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 280
Index......Page 282