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How to Read and Why

By (author) Harold Bloom

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A new book by Americaâ€™s leading literary critic on the uses of deep reading. Practical, inspirational and learned, How to Read and Why is Bloomâ€™s manifesto for the preponderance of written culture. In the vastly influential The Western Canon, Harold Bloom outlined what we should read to understand a greater depth of the individual self. How to Read and Why continues the argument and focusses on how we use literature in order to gain deeper self-awareness. Poems, stories, novels, plays and parables are all analysed as forms of writing as immersion, the language of individuality and inwardness: Shakespeareâ€™s sonnets, the short stories of Hemingway and de Cervantes, the novels of Proust and Calvino, Sophoclesâ€™s Oedipus Rex and Markâ€™s Gospel. Harold Bloom also addresses the idea of why we read: increased individuality, respite from visual bombardment, a return to â€˜deep feelingâ€™ and â€˜deep thinkingâ€™. How to Read and Why is an essential book for any reader, an introduction to the world of written culture, an inspirational self-help book for students and teachers alike.