Rebirth and renewal / [print]
edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Blake Hobby.
- New York, New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [(c)2009.
- xvii, 250 pages ; 25 cm.
- Bloom's literary themes .
- Bloom's literary themes. .
The Aeneid, "Book 6" (Virgil). "Introduction: The Sixth Book of the Aeneid" / H.E. Butler, in The Sixth Book of the Aeneid (1920) ; The Awakening (Kate Chopin). "Renewal and Rebirth in Kate Chopin's The Awakening" / Robert C. Evans Beloved (Toni Morrison). "Renewal and Rebirth in Toni Morrison's Beloved" / Blake G. Hobby Beowulf. "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" / J.R.R. Tolkien (1936) ; Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer). "The Opening of Chaucer's General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales: A Diptych" / Colin Wilcockson, in Review of English Studies (1999) ; Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky). "Crime and Myth: The Archetypal Pattern of Rebirth in Three Novels of Dostoevsky" / Alexandra F. Rudicina, in PMLA (1972) ; Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri). "To Can Grande della Scala" / Dante Alighieri, in Dantis Alagherii Epistolae: The Letters of Dante (1920) ; Doctor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe). "The Damnation of Faustus" / J.P. Brockbank, in Marlowe: Dr. Faustus (1962) ; The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald). "'Boats Against the Current': Mortality and the Myth of Renewal in The Great Gatsby" / Jeffrey Steinbrink, in Twentieth Century Literature (1980) ; Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad). "The Journey Within" / Albert J. Guerard, in Conrad the Novelist (1958) ; The Holy Sonnets (John Donne). "Renewal and Rebirth in John Donne's The Holy Sonnets" / Gary Ettari I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou). "Death, Rebirth, and Renewal in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" / Robert C. Evans King Lear (WilliamShakespeare). "Rebirth and Renewal in Shakespeare's King Lear" / Gary Ettari ; "Little Gidding" from Four Quartets (Thomas Stearns Eliot). "the Later Quartets" / Staffan Bergsten, in Time and Eternity: A Study in the Structure and Symbolism of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets (1960) ; The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka). "Realism and Unrealism: Kafka's 'Metamorphosis'" / Norman N. Holland, in Modern Fiction Studies (1958) ; Orlando (Virginia Woolf). "Renewal, Rebirth, and Change in Virginia Woolf's Orlando" / Lorena Russell The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne). "Hester's Bewitched Triangle: Within the Spell of the 'A'" / Blake G. Hobby A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens). "'Recalled to Life': Sacrifice and Renewal in A Tale of Two Cities" / Arthur Rankin The Tempest (William Shakespeare). From Shakespeare's Mystery Play: A Study of "The Tempest" / Colin Still (1921) ; Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston). "Resistance, Rebirth, and Renewal in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God" / Deborah James.
Contains twenty critical essays that explore themes of rebirth and renewal in various works, such as Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," Shakespeare's "The Tempest," and Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment."