The anxiety of influence : a theory of poetry / Harold Bloom
- Bib ID:
- 89853
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bloom, Harold
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1997
- xlvii, 157 pages ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0195112210
- Summary:
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Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between precursors and the individual artist. His argument that all literary texts are a strong misreading of those that precede them had an enormous impact on the practice of criticism and post-structuralist literary theory. The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature. Written in a moving personal style, anchored by concrete examples, and memorable quotations, this second edition of Bloom's classic work maintains that the anxiety of influence cannot be evaded - neither by poets nor by responsible readers and critics. A new introduction, centering upon Shakespeare and Marlowe explains the genesis of Bloom's thinking, and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism of the past quarter of a century.
- Full contents:
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- Prologue: It Was A Great Marvel That They Were In the Father Without Knowing Him
- Introduction: A Meditation upon Priority, and a Synopsis
- 1. Clinamen or Poetic Misprision
- 2. Tessera or Completion and Antithesis
- 3. Kenosis or Repetition and Discontinuity
- Interchapter: A Manifesto for Antithetical Criticism
- 4. Daemonization or The Counter-Sublime
- 5. Askesis or Purgation and Solipsism
- 6. Apophrades or The Return of the Dead
- Epilogue: Reflections upon the Path.
- Subject:
- Poetry
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1997
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