Anne Franks The Diary of Anne Frank Bloom, Harold (EDT)|Frank, Anne

Anne Frank''s vivid account of her life while hiding from the Nazis has moved generations of readers. This invaluable new study guide contains a new selection of the finest contemporary criticism on The Diary of Anne Frank, plus an introductory essay from master scholar Harold Bloom, a chronology of the author''s life, a bibliography, and an index for easy reference.

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Anne Frank's vivid account of her life while hiding from the Nazis has moved generations of readers. This invaluable new study guide contains a new selection of the finest contemporary criticism on The Diary of Anne Frank, plus an introductory essay from master scholar Harold Bloom, a chronology of the author's life, a bibliography, and an index for easy reference.||The Diary's legacy of hope... should not a sought in hard won moments of optimism. Rather it is found in the desire to fight despair through its painful representation in art. In this sense, the Diary allows us to experience a "new form" of a life narrative... By its very existence, this narrative is new as it redefines the heroism of resistance.ùRachel Feldhay Brenner||The text that Anne Frank envisaged was to be both a personal statement and a record of the circumstances of her life. It was "to be useful or give pleasure"... This raises the thorny issue of whether the literature of atrocity can teach children about that which it describes.ùNigel A. Caplan

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Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1951. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1955, and has long been associated with that school where he has served as Sterling Professor of the Humanities. He has also been Berg Professor of English at New York University. The author of many books and the editor of many more, Bloom is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a past Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University, a member of the American Academy, and the recipient of many other awards, honorary degrees, and prizes. He has also been a frequent contributor to the "New York Review of Books."

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