The labyrinth / [print] edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Blake Hobby. - New York, New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, (c)2009. - xvii, 224 pages ; 25 cm. - Bloom's literary themes . - Bloom's literary themes. .

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Aeneid (Virgil). "Virgil's Aeneid" Penelope Reed Doob, in The Idea of the Labyrinth: From Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages (1990) -- The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser). "The Prophetic Moment" Angus Fletcher, in The Prophetic Moment: An Essay on Spenser (1971) -- "The Garden of Forking Paths" (Jorge Luis Borges). "Borges and the Legacy of "The Garden of Forking Paths'" / Jeffrey Gray -- The General in His Labyrinth (Gabriel Garcia Marquez). "Of Utopias, Labyrinths and Unfulfilled Dreams in The General in His Labyrinth" / Maria Odette Canivell -- Great Expectations (Charles Dickens). "The Poor Labyrinth: The Theme of Social Injustice in Dickens's Great Expectations" in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1954) / John H. Hagan Jr. -- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Henry Fielding). "'The winding labyrinths of nature': The Labyrinth and Providential Order in Tom Jones" / Anthony W. Lee -- The House of the Spirits (Isabelle Allende). "Of Labyrinths in Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits" / Maria Odette Canivell -- If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino). "Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's a Night a Traveler and the Labyrinth" / Aimable Twagilimana -- "In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?"-#77 (Lady Mary Wroth). "The Maze Within: Lady Mary Wroth's 'strang labournith' in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus" / Margaret M. Morlier -- Inferno (Dante Alighieri). "The Poetry of the Divine Comedy" Karl Vossler, in Medieval Culture: An Introduction to Dante and his Times(1929) -- "Kubla Kahn" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge). "Symbolic Labyrinths in Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan" / Robert C. Evans -- The Labyrinth of Solitude (Octavio Paz). "The Labyrinth of Solitude" in Understanding Octavio Paz (1999) / Jose Quiroga -- Metamorphoses (Ovid). "Daedalus in the Labyrinth of Ovid's Metamorphoses" in Classical World (1998) / Barbara Pavlock -- A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare). "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in The Common Man (1950) / G.K. Chesterton -- The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco). "The Name of the Rose and the Labyrinths of Reading" / Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis -- Paradise Lost (John Milton). "The Art of the Maze in Book IX of Paradise Lost" / Kathleen M. Swaim -- "The Second Coming" (William Butler Yeats). "The Secrets of the Sphinx: The Labyrinth in "The Second Coming'" / Josephine A. McQuail -- Ulysses (James Joyce). "James Joyce's Ulysses: Dedalus in the Labyrinth" / Andrew J. Shipe.

A collection of nineteen critical essays that explore the role of the labyrinth in various works of literature, including "The Garden of Forking Paths," "Metamorphoses," "Ulysses," and others.



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Labyrinths in literature.

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