Alienation / [print]
edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Blake Hobby.
- New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [(c)2009.
- xvi, 222 pages ; 25 cm.
- Bloom's literary themes .
- Bloom's literary themes. .
"Bartleby, the Scrivener" (Herman Melville). "Reading the Original: Alienation, Writing, and Labor in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener'" Robert T. Tally-- The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath). "Alienation and Renewal in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar" / Steven Gould Axelrod-- Black Boy (Richard Wright). "Richard Wright's Blues" / Ralph Ellison Brave New World (Aldous Huxley). "Alienation in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World" / Josephine A. McQuail The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger). "Alienation, Materialism, and Religion in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye" / Robert C. Evans The Chosen (Chaim Potok). "The Head, the Heart and the Conflict of Generations in Chaim Potok's The Chosen" / Sam Bluefarb Dubliners (James Joyce). Alienation in James Joyce's Dubliners" / Blake Hobby Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury). "Burning Bright: Fahrenheit 451 as Symbolic Dystopia" / Donald Watt Hamlet (William Shakespeare). "Book IV, Chapter XIII" / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Iliad (Homer). "The Solitary Amphora: Alienation and Tradition in Homer's Iliad" / Scott F. Crider Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison). "Alienation as Narrative Strategy in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man" / Aimable Twagilimana Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf). "Divided Selves" / Jeremy Hawthorn Notes from Underground (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky). "The Journal Epoch, Notes from Underground" / Konstantin Mochulsky One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey). "The Grail Knight Arrives" / Raymond M. Olderman The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson). "Masksin the Mirror: The Eighteen-Nineties" / Masao Miyoshi The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus). "Camus' The Outsider" / Jean-Paul Sartre The Trial (Franz Kafka). "The Trial" / Erich Heller Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett). "A World Without Solace...Nearly Almost Always: Alienation in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot" / Ken Betsalel The Waste Land (Thomas Stearns Eliot). "'Each in His Prison': Damnation and Alienation in The Waste Land" / Matthew J. Bolton ; "Young Goodman Brown" (Nathaniel Hawthorne). "Hawthorne" / Charles Wilkins Webber.
Contains twenty critical essays that explore themes of alienation in various works, such as Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener," Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway," and others.