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The Modern Scholar
- Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies
- ナレーター: Professor Harold Bloom
- 再生時間: 8 時間 10 分
- カテゴリー: 文学・フィクション, 古典
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The Western Canon
- The Books and School of the Ages
- 著者: Harold Bloom
- ナレーター: James Armstrong
- 再生時間: 22 時間 4 分
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Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New Historicism.
Insisting instead upon "the autonomy of aesthetic," Bloom places Shakespeare at the center of the Western Canon.....
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Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles
- The Power of a Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death
- 著者: Harold Bloom
- ナレーター: Edoardo Ballerini
- 再生時間: 20 時間 2 分
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The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry.
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Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind
- 著者: Harold Bloom
- ナレーター: Simon Vance
- 再生時間: 2 時間 47 分
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Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare's more brilliantly populated plays and remains among the most widely read. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom investigates Macbeth's interiority and unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character. The book also becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity.
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The Enlightenment
- The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790
- 著者: Ritchie Robertson
- ナレーター: Jonathan Keeble
- 再生時間: 40 時間 10 分
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The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought, scientific thought as an exemplary form of reasoning and rationality and evidence-based argument. Others accuse the Enlightenment of putting forward a scientific rationality which ignores the complexity and variety of human beings, propagates shallow atheism and aims to subjugate nature to so-called technical progress.
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Iago
- The Strategies of Evil
- 著者: Harold Bloom
- ナレーター: Simon Vance
- 再生時間: 3 時間 3 分
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In all of literature, few antagonists have displayed the ruthless cunning and unscrupulous deceit of Iago, the antagonist to Othello. Often described as Machiavellian, Iago is a fascinating psychological specimen: at once a shrewd expert of the human mind and yet, himself a deeply troubled man.
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
- 著者: George Saunders
- ナレーター: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, 、その他
- 再生時間: 14 時間 44 分
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For the last 20 years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.
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The Western Canon
- The Books and School of the Ages
- 著者: Harold Bloom
- ナレーター: James Armstrong
- 再生時間: 22 時間 4 分
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Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New Historicism.
Insisting instead upon "the autonomy of aesthetic," Bloom places Shakespeare at the center of the Western Canon.....
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Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles
- The Power of a Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death
- 著者: Harold Bloom
- ナレーター: Edoardo Ballerini
- 再生時間: 20 時間 2 分
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The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry.
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Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind
- 著者: Harold Bloom
- ナレーター: Simon Vance
- 再生時間: 2 時間 47 分
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Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare's more brilliantly populated plays and remains among the most widely read. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom investigates Macbeth's interiority and unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character. The book also becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity.
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The Enlightenment
- The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790
- 著者: Ritchie Robertson
- ナレーター: Jonathan Keeble
- 再生時間: 40 時間 10 分
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The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought, scientific thought as an exemplary form of reasoning and rationality and evidence-based argument. Others accuse the Enlightenment of putting forward a scientific rationality which ignores the complexity and variety of human beings, propagates shallow atheism and aims to subjugate nature to so-called technical progress.
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Iago
- The Strategies of Evil
- 著者: Harold Bloom
- ナレーター: Simon Vance
- 再生時間: 3 時間 3 分
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In all of literature, few antagonists have displayed the ruthless cunning and unscrupulous deceit of Iago, the antagonist to Othello. Often described as Machiavellian, Iago is a fascinating psychological specimen: at once a shrewd expert of the human mind and yet, himself a deeply troubled man.
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
- 著者: George Saunders
- ナレーター: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, 、その他
- 再生時間: 14 時間 44 分
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For the last 20 years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.
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Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air
- 著者: Harold Bloom
- ナレーター: Simon Vance
- 再生時間: 3 時間 6 分
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Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history - and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom delivers exhilarating clarity and invites us to look at this character as a flawed human who might be living in our world. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character: Just as we encounter one Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are in high school and college and another when we are adults, Bloom explains his shifting understanding of Cleopatra over the course of his own lifetime.
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Fundamentals
- Ten Keys to Reality
- 著者: Frank Wilczek
- ナレーター: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Frank Wilczek
- 再生時間: 7 時間 31 分
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One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the 10 profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world.
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Wonderworks
- The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
- 著者: Angus Fletcher
- ナレーター: Jacques Roy
- 再生時間: 15 時間 11 分
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A brilliant examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, that shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs - rivaling any scientific inventions - and engineering enhancements to the human heart and mind. Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere - from Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, and others - each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative and neuroscientific advancement.
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Antiquities
- 著者: Cynthia Ozick
- ナレーター: Edoardo Ballerini
- 再生時間: 3 時間 25 分
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In 1949, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie has returned as a trustee to live in the long-defunct boarding school that he had attended as a child. There he is preparing a memoir. He writes, with faltering recall, of the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and of his fascination with the Egyptian archaeological adventures of his distant cousin, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie. Memories return, too, of the passions of a boyhood friendship with named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil who claims descent from Egypt's Elephantine Island.
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Time of the Magicians
- Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade that Reinvented Philosophy
- 著者: Wolfram Eilenberger
- ナレーター: Rhett Samuel Price
- 再生時間: 13 時間
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The year is 1919. The horror of the First World War is still fresh for the protagonists of Time of the Magicians, each of whom finds himself at a crucial juncture. Benjamin, whose life is characterized by false starts and unfinished projects, is trying to flee his overbearing father and floundering in his academic career, living hand to mouth as a critic. Wittgenstein, by contrast, has dramatically decided to divest himself of the monumental fortune he stands to inherit, as a scion of one of the wealthiest industrial families in Europe, in search of absolute spiritual clarity.
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The Swerve
- How the World Became Modern
- 著者: Stephen Greenblatt
- ナレーター: Edoardo Ballerini
- 再生時間: 9 時間 41 分
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Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late 30s took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic by Lucretius—a beautiful poem containing the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles.
あらすじ・解説
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare embodied in the character of Juliet the world's most impressive representation ever of a woman in love. With Julius Caesar, the great playwright produced a drama of astonishing and perpetual relevance. In Hamlet, Shakespeare created a character with the most brilliant mind in all of literature. And the character of Iago in Othello has been the very archetype of the villain ever since. King Lear presents audiences with unparalleled emotional and intellectual demands. Macbeth is a play of ruthless economy in which Shakespeare forces his audience into intimate sympathy with a man not far from being a mass murderer. Finally, in Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare created something entirely new: a vast political and historical conspectus involving the whole world.
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- Ronald
- 2011/11/16
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I, in the late middle ages, have taken up a new appreciation of Shakespeare. He, of course, has influenced Western Thought for centuries. Dr. Bloom is clearly one of the rare Americans who can "bill" themselves as "Shakespearean Expert". I thoroughly loved the material presented BUT he has made the unfortunate decision of narating his own wonderfully insightful book. If you count (who would, but just "if you did get bored") words-per-minute, this product would win the award hands-down. Thankfully, on Dr. Bloom's "History of the Western Canon", he used a reader. A+ on content; C- on presentation.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2017/08/13
Epic Disappointment
I was so excited to get this series of fourteen lectures from noted scholar Harold Bloom that I ignored a few tepid reviews. Boy, should I have heeded them. Bloom labors through these lectures which even if you speed up the audio as I did are painfully slow. Also, Bloom really gives few insights, indeed, most of the lectures consist of him reading enormous chunks of text and end with him saying something like "This is where Shakespeare makes his greatest and most profound...". Oddly enough, it seems that to Bloom every single play is the greatest literary achievement and will never be surpassed. However, to be fair, I did enjoy the pair of lectures on Macbeth but again, there are precious few true insights (though his insight into the sexual tensions of the Macbeth marriage was interesting).
I think the problem that I had with these lectures are as follows: a. Bloom's delivery is ponderous and unpleasant, b. the lectures are repetitive, and c. there is very little analysis beyond saying how great, brilliant, and incomparable the plays are.
Save your credits and your time. Only their brevity made this tolerable.
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- Jay Quintana
- 2021/01/23
Half Lecture, Half Performance
Bloom does a good job summarizing and analyzing Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. While he doesn't offer anything new or profound, there's enough here to make it a worthwhile listen.
Regarding the narration, Bloom speaks with a New York accent, which is fine, but it feels like half the lectures are him performing passages from the plays. He's actually not bad, but it's obvious he's not classically trained and, frankly, unless one is, I don't want to hear him do Shakespeare.
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- Mark
- 2011/04/03
The expert
Prof. Bloom is the leading expert on Shakespeare. This lecture series is based on his book "Shakespeare, The Invention of the Human", and gives a deeper insight into the characters that are the icons of Western literature.
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- sin sin minkin
- 2019/02/18
Bloom offers his singular genius
Just when you think Bloom has wet his pa ts about one play, character, line, or moment in 'all of Shakespeare' he hits you with another.
In the end, I don't know more about the tragedies; I only know what Bloom thinks of them.
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- Bernd
- 2014/07/07
Harold Bloom make You loving Shakespeare
What did you like most about The Modern Scholar?
I`m always enthisiastic about The Modern Scholar. I`ve bought more than 20 books af them. I think it is my best way to learn English and simultaneously learning more about the whole world.
Who was your favorite character and why?
By Shakespeare I like most the tragedy of Cleopatra and about Othello. It`s amazing, how Shakespeare created real life figures. One can feel fear and love and all the others reasons.
Have you listened to any of the narrator’s other performances? How does this one compare?
I `velisten other books of Proffesor Bloom too. I like his emphasis und ggod understanding of the stuff.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Oh no. It`s really to long. But i heard it more than once. And I like it eveyry time more.
Any additional comments?
I recommend the book without reservation. It`s great.