Kabbalah and criticism
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Kabbalah and criticism
（Continuum impacts : changing minds）
Continuum, 2005
Available at 3 libraries
Note
"First published in 1975 by Seabury Press. First published by Continuum in 1981"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
While Bloom is appreciated for his originality, range and clarity, less notice has been taken of the remarkable unity that is displayed in his writings from the earlier studies on Shelley, Blake and Romanticism, up to A Map of Misreading. That unity is brilliantly highlighted in Kabbalah and Criticism. Providing a study of the Kabbalah itself, its great commentators, the 'revisionary ratios' they employed and of its significance as a model for contemporary criticism, Kabbalah and Criticism is an indispensable book for all students of literature as well as for all those who are fascinated by this singularly rich body of mystical writings.
Table of Contents
- Prologue: That, too, I must have known
- Kabbalah
- Kabbalah and Criticism
- The Necessity of Misreading
- Epilogue: The Name Spoken Over the Water. Introduction
- 1. Does the Testament of Abraham Belong to a Genre?
- 2. Humour in the Testament of Abraham
- 3. Characterization of Abraham
- 4. Characterization of Michael
- 5. Death in the Testament of Abraham
- 6. The Plot of the Testament of Abraham
- 7. Comparison of the Greek Manuscripts
- 8. Conclusion
- Appendix 1: The 54 Narrative Units of the Testament of Abraham
- Appendix 2: Citations of the Three Manuscript Families
- Bibliography.
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