Viva Blooms Notes: Lord of The Flies

Let Yale University Harold bloom-author of the Western canon and a leading authority on literature-help develop your understanding of the worlds great literary works. Unlike other study guides, viva Blooms notes offers a wide selection of Critical analyses by renowned scholars, as well as concise biographical and bibliographical information and a comprehensive thematic discussion of the plot-all in one handbook.The ideal aid to all students, viva Blooms notes is a definitive guide for independent study and a single source for footnoting essays and research papers.about the author Professor Blooms works include Shelleys mythmaking (1959), The visionary company (1961), Blakes apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), a map of mis-readings (1975), Kabbalah and criticism (1975), and agon: towards a theory of revisionism (1982), The anxiety of influence (1973) sets forth Professor Blooms provocative theory of the literary relationships between the great writers and their predecessors. His most recent books are the American religion (1992) and the Western canon (1994). Professor Bloom earned his PhD from Yale University in 1955 and has served on the Yale faculty since then. He is a 1985 macarthur foundation Award recipient and served as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of poetry at Harvard University in 1987-88. He is currently the editor of the Chelsea house series major literary characters and modern critical views, and other Chelsea house series in literary criticism.