Description: Anxiety of Influence : A Theory of Poetry, Paperback by Bloom, Harold, ISBN 0195112210, ISBN-13 9780195112214, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its own 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 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. Th remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature and has sold over 17,000 copies in paperback since 1984. 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 th on literary criticism of the past twenty 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." The influence-anxiety does not so much concern the forerunner but rather is an anxiety achieved in and by the story, novel, play, poem, or essay. 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.
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Edition: 2
Book Title: Anxiety of Influence : a Theory of Poetry
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Topic: General, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year: 1997
Item Height: 0.4 in
Features: Revised
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Poetry
Item Weight: 6.6 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Harold Bloom
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
