{"product_id":"9780674780286","title":"Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e, Dante's \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eHenry IV\u003c\/i\u003e plays, \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, Blake's \u003ci\u003eMilton\u003c\/i\u003e, Wordsworth's \u003ci\u003ePrelude\u003c\/i\u003e, and works by Freud, Kafka, and Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. This is criticism at its best.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harvard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019706515696,"sku":"9780674780286","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780674780286_p0.jpg?v=1763607471","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780674780286","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}