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Edgar Allan Poe is unique for being at once so firmly entrenched within the American literary tradition and yet so questionable in the eyes of the very critics whose attentions strengthened his position. Harold Bloom wonders if Poe's longevity suggests that literary merit and canonical status aren't inseparable.

This title, Edgar Allan Poe, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Edgar Allan Poe through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Edgar Allan Poe, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. ... Read more

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one of the earliest attempts to define Poe written in the late 19th century.
This book dissects the personality of Poe from his works and since it is a biography it deals with some of the more negative aspects of Poe as well as the positive one's.There are alot of reproductions of letters written by Poe in regard to his personal life as well as letters written to him.Some very flattering others less so,as if he may have had a "mood disorder".His criticisms of others works the author defends as almost entirely just, but it is also pointed out Poe was occasionallysusceptible to flattery,particularly if there a financial renumeration or a" well turned ankle" involved.This is one work where Poe's use of laudenum(a mixture of opium and alcohol) receives attention.apparently this drug was a common stock at the doctor's office(not to mention the street vendor)and was used and prescribed for alot of people."Opium dreams",a common phrase,could have been one of Poe's inspirations,a mind of his calibre would certainly remember and be able to profoundly describe those visions of paradise(and horror)!!it is obvious to me that the author of this book admires and respects Poe, but keeps his distance for the sake of his interpretation of the truth.The 1840's with no copyright laws and high illiteracy would not make much opportunity for men like Poe other than "free lancing"an open invitation for "economic violence".Woodberry's book reads smoothly and pretty much gets to the essence of Poe in my opinion.

Insulting
This book is shallow, judgemental, poorly researched and an insult to any the intelligence of any thinking person.There are some marvelous biographies about Edgar Allan Poe (The one by pulitzer prive winning biographer, Kenneth Silverman, is the best.) To call this a STUDY guide is absurd.It's a slanted, bias, narrow minded piece of propoganda.

good
a pretty good book.it's definently a good read for those interested in poe.

verry cool
this book is a good information sorce on the american poet edger allenpoe. it talks about his life and his poetry. verry cute. ... Read more

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From the supplier: Allan Bloom's book 'The Closing of the American Mind' became a phenomenal success right after it was published by Simon and Schuster in the 1980s. Much of the credit went to Bloom's friend Saul Bellow, who wrote the foreword. The book, which tells of the weaknesses and failures of US universities, would have been successful without the foreword because it was intellectual, emotional and brilliantly written. One of the book's famous arguments involves Bloom's description of students, which was likened to Tocqueville's sentiments in 'Democracy in America.'

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Title: The Closing of the American Mind, revisited. (book by Allan Bloom)
Author: S.J.D. Green
Publication: The Antioch Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1998
Publisher: Antioch Review, Inc.
Volume: v56Issue: n1Page: p26(11)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Allan Bloom, Neil Postman, Henry Giroux, Richard Slotkin, John Leonard, Jim A. Kuypers, John Michael Greer, Alex Constantine, Elizabeth Povinelli, Richard Meyer. Excerpt:Alex Constantine Alex Constantine is an American author, investigative journalist, radio commentator and musician. His work focuses on fascism and organized crime. Professional activities He has contributed to LA Weekly , Hustler, Z magazine , High Times, and a variety of other magazines, as well as providing news and radio commentary for several California radio stations. Constantine has also appeared on various television shows related to music, mind control and political assassinations. He has hosted two BBC productions, one on the John Kennedy assassination and another on the death of Jimi Hendrix. The British newspaper The Observer included his book The Covert War Against Rock in their "The 50 Greatest Music Books Ever Written list." Much of his writing focuses on fascism, which he says is inherently conspiratorial. Constantine's band is called The Platitudes . The Canadian band The Constantines is named for Alex Constantine. One of Constantine's more popular articles alleges that the Central Intelligence Agency uses satanic cults to engage in trauma-based programming. In his book The Covert War Against Rock Constantine advances documented evidence that anti-fascist rock stars were murdered for political reasons. Bibliography References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Allan Bloom item Full name: Allan Bloom item Born: September 14, 1930 Indianapolis, Indiana , United States item Died: October 7, 1992 Chicago , Illinois , United States item Era: 20th-century philosophy item Region: Western Philosophy item School : Continental Philosophy , Platonism item Main... ... Read more

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This excellent translation makes available a classic work central to one of the most interesting controversies of the eighteenth century: the quarrel between Rousseau and Voltaire. Besides containing some of the most sensitive literary criticism ever written (especially of Molière), the book is an excellent introduction to the principles of classical political thought. It demonstrates the paradoxes of Rousseau's though and clearly displays the temperament that led him to repudiate the hopes of the Enlightenment. ... Read more

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Rousseau's Blast Against Falstaff as King
In this work Rousseau took to task the French theater and, to a great extent, much of what passed for enlightened thinking about censorship and republican government. It is difficult for a modern reader to tolerate his arguments after they have largely been displaced by the concepts of our own Media age: the essential goodness of total freedom of the arts, uncensored publications, and all that goes with these.
Rousseau's rhetorical criticism of the theater, and the French Enlightenment figures, such as Voltaire, is carefully considered and extensive. He separates the intellectual deceits from what he considers bedrock issues, such as the absolute importance of a virtuous citenzry, and offers up a strict, severe Calvinist indictment of the foibles of passing off political thought as scientific reasoning. Rousseau makes no cheap arguments - his attack on the French theater is not predicated on some cheap vulgar play deserving of our disdain, but instead he confronts Moliere's masterpiece, the Misanthrope. And Rousseau shows in a magnificent reading of the play, which he admires, how Moliere deliberately subverts the truth for the effect of comedy. In this, Rousseau believes, virtue has been damaged more than we recognize. Rousseau believes comedy, and comic characters, strike at the heart of society's greatest strengths, pride in civic virtue, unity of purpose, repect for its leaders. He concludes that the theater is far more dangerous than the simple divertisement and amusement we think it, that supporters would have us believe. And he roundly rails against those who suggest the theater has the ability to improve society.
Much of what Rousseau argues echoes in our own society. However reactionary it all sounds at first, there is a deeply troubling truth in the pictures he draws of the duplicity behind Enlightenment pronouncements. He is also quick to point out conceited Philosophical attitudes devoid of any strict self-appraisal or self-criticism. Much of what he writes sounds almost upside down from modern accepted belief.
Harsh it certainly is, but Rousseau is very challenging, and his final words, for this essay was written near the end of his life, are not easily dismissed as final rantings of old age and bitterness with the future.
Although I am certainly not a conservative, I would suspect this book would be interesting to anyone holding such political views. For others, it offers a chance to see the darker side of what many of us take too readily for granted: freedom of press, an open - wide-open - popular theater (i.e. the movies) and the certaintude that many Democrats have in the absolute rightness of their beliefs.Rousseau throws buckets of cold water on all of us, and plays Prince Hal as King to our infatuation with the Falstaffian ethos.
There is an excellent and very necessary introduction by Allan Bloom.

A counter-blast to the trumpets of elitism
In this work, Rousseau replied to an article in the great "Encyclopedie" penned by D'Alembert.The article concerned Rousseau's hometown -- Geneva, and D'Alembert was for the most part quite complimentary about that city.But he did quarrel with the absense of any theatre.He was surprised, he said, that "in a city where proper and correct theatre is forbidden, coarse and silly farces as contrary to good taste as to good morals are permitted."

Rousseau was right to see elitism in those words.The intellectuals of D'Alembert's crowd naturally thought that they could decide for everybody what it "proper and correct," what is "coarse." Rousseau was right, furthermore, to issue this counterblast.

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : John Dewey, Suki Schorer, Carl Rogers, Allan Bloom, Ivan Galamian, John Lee Comstock, Matthew Lipman, James Bryant Conant, Benjamin Bloom, Howard Baskerville, Vincent Persichetti, William Bergsma, Louis Horst, Malcolm Knowles, William Chauvenet, Ned Herrmann, Hilda Taba, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Helen Parkhurst, Laurence J. Peter, Robert Mills Gagné, Raymond Moley, Hall Overton, Edith Hamilton. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : John Dewey (20 octobre 1859 à Burlington dans le Vermont - 1 juin 1952 à New York) est un philosophe américain spécialisé en psychologie appliquée et en pédagogie. Son système philosophique se rattache au courant pragmatiste développé par Charles S. Peirce et William James. Dewey est né à Burlington, dans le Vermont, dans une famille d'origine modeste. Comme son ainé, Davis Rich Dewey, il étudia à l'Université du Vermont, où il fut diplômé (Phi Beta Kappa) en 1879. Après trois ans passés comme enseignant à Oil City, en Pennsylvanie, Dewey décide qu'il n'est pas fait pour travailler dans l'éducation au niveau primaire ou secondaire. Après avoir étudié un an sous la supervision de G. Stanley Hall, travaillant dans le premier Laboratoire Américain de Psychologie, Dewey obtient son Ph.D de l'École des Arts et Sciences de l'Université Johns Hopkins en 1884, il prit un poste universitaire à l'Université du Michigan (1884-1888 et 1889-1894), grâce à George Sylvester Morris. Sa dissertation non publiée et perdue était intitulée "The Psychology of Kant". En 1894, Dewey rejoint la nouvelle Université de Chicago (1894-1904) où il forma sa théorie du savoir fondé empiriquement, alignant ses idées sur la nouvelle École de Pensée Pragmatique. Durant ses années à l'Université de Chicago,...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Allan Bloom, Martha Nussbaum, Eric A. Havelock, John Raven, G. E. R. Lloyd, W. K. C. Guthrie, Myles Burnyeat, Paul Woodruff, Gregory Vlastos, Alexander Nehamas, Michael Frede, Terence Irwin, A. A. Long, David Sedley, Julia Annas, F. M. Cornford, Geoffrey Kirk, Gwilym Ellis Lane Owen, J. L. Ackrill, Richard Rudolf Walzer, Reginald Hackforth, Jonathan Barnes, Gisela Striker. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 100. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Allan David Bloom (September 14, 1930 October 7, 1992) was an American philosopher, classicist, and academic. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon and Alexandre Kojève. He subsequently taught at Cornell University, the University of Toronto, Yale University, École Normale Supérieure of Paris, and the University of Chicago. Bloom championed the idea of 'Great Books' education. Bloom became famous for his criticism of contemporary American higher education, with his views being expressed in his bestselling 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind. Although Bloom was characterised as a conservative in the popular media, Bloom explicitly stated that this was a misunderstanding, and made it clear that he was not to be affiliated with any conservative movements. Allan Bloom was born Indianapolis, Indiana in 1930 to Jewish social-worker parents. The couple had a daughter, Lucille, in 1928. The birth of Allan, two years later, completed the family group. As a thirteen-year-old, he read a Readers Digest article about the University of Chicago and told his parents he wanted to attend; his parents thought it was unreasonable and did not encourage his hopes. Yet, when his family moved to Chicago in 1944, his parents met a psychiatrist and family friend whose son was enrolled in the University of Chicagos humanities program...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=84444 ... Read more

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Title: Virtue and romance: Allan Bloom on Jane Austen and Aristotelian Ethics.(Critical essay)
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Publication: Modern Age (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2010
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Plato. Early life of Plato, Platonic realism, Theory of Forms, Platonic epistemology, Trial of Socrates, Allan Bloom, Seventh Letter (Plato), Leo Strauss, Ancient philosophy, Apology (Plato) ... Read more