Bloom's How to Write about Maya Angelou
(Autor) Harold BloomMaya Angelou is an author who is as popularly received as she is critically praised. Her memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice in American letters, noteworthy for its meditation on identity and how notions of race, ethnicity, and gender contribute to and complicate journeys of self-actualization and self-discovery. Bloom's How to Write about Maya Angelou encourages students to sharpen their critical-thinking skills when writing essays about this venerable author. Bibliographies, an index, and an introduction from esteemed scholar Harold Bloom round out this title.
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (1930-2019) was a renowned literary critic and scholar, best known for his work "The Anxiety of Influence" which explores the relationship between poets and their predecessors. His dense, allusive writing style and focus on the concept of literary influence revolutionized the study of literature.
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