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The anxiety of influence : a theory of poetry /

Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence, is a study of Romantic poets and the relation between tradition and the individual artist. For the second edition, Bloom offers an introduction which explains the genesis of his thinking and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism of the past...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloom, Harold
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0605/96019988-d.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/96019988-b.html
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: It was a great marvel that they were in the father without knowing him
  • Introduction: A meditation upon priority and a synopsis
  • Clinamen or poetic misprision
  • Tessera or completion and antithesis
  • Kenosis or repetition and discontinuity
  • Interchapter: A manifesto for antithetical criticism
  • Daemonization or the counter-sublime
  • Askesis or prugation and solipsism
  • Apophrades or the return of the dead
  • Epilogue: Reflections upon the path.