Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195112214
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.
The Anxiety of Influence
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195112214
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.
The Anxiety of Influence
Author: Harold BloomThe Anatomy of Influence
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300167601
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.
A Map of Misreading
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195162218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The second volume in Bloom's series of works which reveal his theory of revisionism, "A Map of Misreading" demonstrates his theory that patterns of imagery in poems represent both a response to and a defense against the influence of precursor poems.
Literary Criticism
Author: W. K. WimsattPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520329449
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Figures of Capable Imagination
Author: Harold BloomPublisher:
ISBN: 9780816492770
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Ecstasy of Influence
Author: Jonathan LethemPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385534965
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
What’s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what’s contemporary culture supposed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the “white elephant” role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing range of answers. A constellation of previously published pieces and new essays as provocative and idiosyncratic as any he’s written, this volume sheds light on an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring, and Marlon Brando, as well as on a shelf’s worth of his literary models and contemporaries: Norman Mailer, Paula Fox, Bret Easton Ellis, James Wood, and others. And, writing about Brooklyn, his father, and his sojourn through two decades of writing, Lethem sheds an equally strong light on himself.
The Saving Lie
Author: Agata Bielik-RobsonPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810127288
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Hailed as our era's most profound theorist of literary influence, Harold Bloom's own influence on the landscape of literary criticism has been decisive. His wide-ranging critical writings have plumbed the depths of Romanticism, explored the anxiety caused by the influence of one generation of poets on another, wrestled with the idea of a literary canon, and examined the relationship between religion and literature. --
Literature and Fascination
Author: Sibylle BaumbachPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137538015
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Exploring literary fascination as a key concept of aesthetic attraction, this book illuminates the ways in which literary texts are designed, presented, and received. Detailed case studies include texts by William Shakespeare, S.T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Don DeLillo, and Ian McEwan.
Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300255810
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
“The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon as you can.” So Harold Bloom, the most famous literary critic of his generation, exhorts readers of his last book: one that praises the sustaining power of poetry. "Passionate. . . . Perhaps Bloom’s most personal work, this is a fitting last testament to one of America’s leading twentieth-century literary minds."—Publishers Weekly “An extraordinary testimony to a long life spent in the company of poetry and an affecting last declaration of [Bloom's] passionate and deeply unfashionable faith in the capacity of the imagination to make the world feel habitable”—Seamus Perry, Literary Review "Reading, this stirring collection testifies, ‘helps in staying alive.’“—Kirkus Reviews, starred review This dazzling celebration of the power of poetry to sublimate death—completed weeks before Harold Bloom died—shows how literature renews life amid what Milton called “a universe of death.” Bloom reads as a way of taking arms against the sea of life’s troubles, taking readers on a grand tour of the poetic voices that have haunted him through a lifetime of reading. “High literature,” he writes, “is a saving lie against time, loss of individuality, premature death.” In passages of breathtaking intimacy, we see him awake late at night, reciting lines from Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Montaigne, Blake, Wordsworth, Hart Crane, Jay Wright, and many others. He feels himself “edged by nothingness,” uncomprehending, but still sustained by reading. Generous and clear‑eyed, this is among Harold Bloom’s most ambitious and most moving books.