The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey Through the Great Books
by Bruce Meyer
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New Page 1 “Meyer is the best sort of critical reader: one who loves literature and also enjoys discussing it in an enlightened and accessible manner.” --Quill & Quire Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare and all the other great authors are still with us in ways we might not realize. They are the creators of the stories that mould our lives, our deaths, our dreams and our politics. In The Golden Thread, Bruce Meyer takes his readers on a voyage of discovery through some of the show more most important works in Western literature, from the Bible and the Odyssey toA Room of One’s Own and Ulysses. Offering a fresh and accessible approach to understanding the narratives that underlie our culture, he shows how the great works of the past continue to be manifest in today’s media. Now reissued in a beautiful Harper Perennial edition with a P.S. section, The Golden Thread is a guide that will enable both the lover of literature and the reader who has always felt intimidated by the classics to navigate through the great works with confidence--and wonder. show lessTags
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I loved how he explained the continuity of different works and their influences throughout the ages, it also has explained what it is to be an artist
well written and useful survey of Western culture seen from a perspective of English literature
I referred to this book again and again during my undergrad years. Very helpful background and contextual information.
Required reading for Humanities Librarians.
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Bruce Meyer writes: 'I look into the eyes of these subjects, these authors, and I realize that what I saw when I looked through the lens of my camera was the writers who not merely wrote works that make us stop and consider who we are, but who created-out of their imaginations-the words and visions of this world they share with us,'
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- The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey Through the Great Books
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- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 809 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures
- LCC
- PN45 .M474 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Theory. Philosophy. Esthetics
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