Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism"In the culmination of a series that began with "The Anxiety of Influence" and "A Map of Misreading," Harold Bloom expands upon his controversial theory of revisionism, which he views as a contest of opposing artistic and moral drives. From this theoretical perspective, Bloom re-examines Freud, religious sources of literature, literary modes such as fantasy, and the sequence of American writers that includes Emerson, Whitman, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, and John Ashbery. A 1982 National Book Critics Circle nominee."--Back cover |
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Page 72
... Kabbalah , in which the Gnosis improbably returned to Judaism . This Zimzum , or holding - in of the divine breath and being , inaugurated a cataclys- mic process that Luria called Shevirath ha - kelim , the Breaking of the Vessels ...
... Kabbalah , in which the Gnosis improbably returned to Judaism . This Zimzum , or holding - in of the divine breath and being , inaugurated a cataclys- mic process that Luria called Shevirath ha - kelim , the Breaking of the Vessels ...
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... Kabbalah of Isaac Luria . The inevitable commentator upon this transcendental and extraordi- nary breakthrough is Gershom Scholem , who reads it as the re- venge of myth against the normative rabbinicism which had ex- pelled Gnostic ...
... Kabbalah of Isaac Luria . The inevitable commentator upon this transcendental and extraordi- nary breakthrough is Gershom Scholem , who reads it as the re- venge of myth against the normative rabbinicism which had ex- pelled Gnostic ...
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... Kabbalah , the ambiguity he comments upon , between artisan's tool and vessel , marks precisely the Judaizing swerve away from Gnosticism in Luria . The artisan's tool suggests the Platonic Demiurge , but the broken vessels that are not ...
... Kabbalah , the ambiguity he comments upon , between artisan's tool and vessel , marks precisely the Judaizing swerve away from Gnosticism in Luria . The artisan's tool suggests the Platonic Demiurge , but the broken vessels that are not ...
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Revisionism and Critical Personality | 16 |
Gnosis Poetry Criticism | 52 |
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