Sin and Redemption (Bloom’s Literary Themes)

Untitled......Page 1
Bloom’s Literary Themes: Sin and Redemption......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Series Introduction by Harold Bloom:\rThemes and Metaphors......Page 12
Volume Introduction by Harold Bloom......Page 16
All the King’s Men (Robert Penn Warren)......Page 18
The Bible......Page 26
The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge......Page 44
Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)......Page 58
Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)......Page 76
The Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald......Page 98
The Novels of William Golding......Page 122
King Lear (William Shakespeare)......Page 152
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)......Page 164
The Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor......Page 174
Paradise Lost (John Milton)......Page 182
“The Pardoner’s Tale” (Geoffrey Chaucer)......Page 194
“In the Penal Colony” (Franz Kafka)......Page 226
Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to\rThat Which Is to Come (John Bunyan)......Page 236
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)......Page 240
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)......Page 248
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)......Page 268
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (Jonathan Edwards)......Page 278
The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)......Page 298
The Plays of Tennessee Williams......Page 310
Acknowledgments......Page 330
Index......Page 332