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FREE THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE: A THEORY OF POETRY PDF Prof. Harold Bloom | 208 pages | 03 Jul 1997 | Oxford University Press Inc | 9780195112214 | English | New York, United States The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry - Harold Bloom - Google книги Professor Bloom Yale; author of Blake's Apocalypse,and Yeats, interprets modern poetic history — the history of poetry in a Cartesian climate — in terms of Freud's "family romance After graduating from Yale, Bloom remained there The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry a teacher, and was made Sterling Professor of Humanities in Bloom's theories have changed the way that critics think of literary tradition and has also focused his attentions on history and the Bible. He has written over twenty books and edited countless others. He is one of the most famous critics in the world and considered an expert in many fields. In he became a founding patron of Ralston College, a new institution in Savannah, Georgia, that focuses on primary texts. Harold Bloom. Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its own long shadow of influence since it was first published in Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between tradition and the individual artist. Although Bloom was never the leader of any critical "camp," his argument that all literary texts are a response to those that precede them had an enormous impact on the practice of deconstruction and poststructuralist literary theory in this country. The book remains a central work The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry criticism for all students of literature and has sold over 17, copies in paperback since Written in a moving personal style, anchored by concrete examples, and memorably quotable, Bloom's book maintains that the anxiety of influence cannot be evaded-- neither by poets nor by responsible readers and critics. This second edition contains a new Introduction, which explains the genesis of Bloom's thinking and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism of the past twenty years. Given the enormous attention generated by Bloom's controversial The Western Cannon, this new edition is certain to find a readymade audience among the new generation of scholars, students, and layreaders interested in the Bloom cannon. (PDF) Anxiety of Influence | syed peerzada - It refers to the psychological struggle of aspiring authors to overcome the anxiety posed by the influence of their literary antecedents. The theory of anxiety of influence is a theory applied principally The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry early nineteenth century romantic poetry. Its author, Harold Bloom, maintains that the theory has general applicability to the study of literary tradition, ranging from Homer and the Bible to Thomas Pynchon and Anne Carson in the 20th and 21st century. It is based primarily on Bloom's belief that there is no such thing as an original poem, that every new composition is simply a misreading or misinterpretation of an earlier poem and that influence is unavoidable and inescapable; all writers inevitably, to some degree, adopt, manipulate or alter and assimilate certain aspects of the content or subject matter, literary style or form from their predecessors. Every disciple takes away something from his master. Contrary to universally held beliefs that the literary influence of precursors can provide a purely benevolent and inspirational platform for aspiring writers, Bloom credits this influence also with the opposite effect. Bloom equates this struggle to the Freudian family drama; particularly to the Oedipal complex and relationship of son to father, where the emerging writer is cast as the 'son' in a battle against the 'father'; a literary precursor. In contrast, writers who cannot prevail over this anxiety of influence are deemed 'weak', with their works regarded as markedly derivative and reminiscent of the works of earlier literary masters. Some great poets in which Bloom draws upon, who have overcome this anxiety of influence include Wordsworth, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry and Wallace Stevens. In order to determine the effects of this theory on literature, Bloom has The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry the six "revisionary ratios", which are occasionally based on the model of Freud's defense mechanisms. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Apprentice complex Anxiety of authorship Covering cherub. Literary criticism. Archetypal criticism Biographical criticism Chicago school Cultural materialism Darwinian criticism Deconstruction Descriptive poetics Ecocriticism Feminist criticism Formalism Geocriticism Marxist criticism New Criticism New historicism Postcolonial criticism Postcritique Psychoanalytic criticism Reader-response criticism Russian formalism Semiotic criticism Sociological criticism Source criticism Thing theory. Categories : Literary criticism Interpretation philosophy. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Add links. The Anxiety of Influence - Wikipedia Professor Bloom Yale; author of Blake's Apocalypse,and Yeats, interprets modern poetic history — the history of poetry in a Cartesian climate — in terms of Freud's "family romance Harold BloomProf. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its own long shadow of influence since it was first published in Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between tradition and the individual artist. Although Bloom was never the leader of any critical "camp," his argument that all literary texts are a response to those that precede them had an enormous impact on the practice of deconstruction and poststructuralist literary theory in this country. The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature and has sold over 17, copies in paperback since Written in a moving personal style, anchored by concrete examples, and memorably quotable, Bloom's book maintains that the anxiety of influence cannot be evaded-- neither by poets nor by responsible readers and critics. This second edition contains a new Introduction, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry explains the genesis of Bloom's thinking and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism of the past twenty years. Here, Bloom asserts that the anxiety of influence comes out of a complex act of strong misreading, a creative interpretation he calls "poetic misprision. In other words, without Keats's reading of Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, we could not have Keats's odes and sonnets and his two Hyperions. Given the enormous attention generated by Bloom's controversial The Western Canon, this new edition is certain to find a readymade audience among the new generation of scholars, students, and layreaders interested in the Bloom cannon. Clinamen or Poetic Misprision. Tessera or Completion and Antithesis. Kenosis or Repetition and Discontinuity. Daemonizatton or The CounterSublime. Askesis or Purgation and Solipsism. Apophrades or The Return of the Dead. University of Oxford..
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