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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... Maskull's Promethean quest is only another pleasure , another re- jected otherness that ensnares Maskull briefly , intensely and to no purpose . A narrative that is nothing but a remorseless drive to death , beyond the pleasure / pain ...
... Maskull's Promethean quest is only another pleasure , another re- jected otherness that ensnares Maskull briefly , intensely and to no purpose . A narrative that is nothing but a remorseless drive to death , beyond the pleasure / pain ...
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... Maskull to Nightspore , from Prometheus - Narcissus to what Blake called " the real Man the imagination . " It is the progressive ex- haustion of the reader , through violence and through identification with Maskull , which is the true ...
... Maskull to Nightspore , from Prometheus - Narcissus to what Blake called " the real Man the imagination . " It is the progressive ex- haustion of the reader , through violence and through identification with Maskull , which is the true ...
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... Maskull , the quester from earth plays his own music upon the circular lake called Irontick . Maskull forces the Muspel - light to appear , but strains too hard to contract it into a solid form . His intention is to compel Surtur , the ...
... Maskull , the quester from earth plays his own music upon the circular lake called Irontick . Maskull forces the Muspel - light to appear , but strains too hard to contract it into a solid form . His intention is to compel Surtur , the ...
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Revisionism and Critical Personality | 16 |
Gnosis Poetry Criticism | 52 |
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Abyss agon agonistic ambivalence American Jewry antithetical anxiety Ashbery Ashbery's aura becomes belated belatedness called canonical Carlyle catastrophe concept Crane creation creative criticism daemonic death defense Demiurge dialectic divine drive Emerson Emersonian Eros essay evasion figuration final freedom Freud Freudian Gnosis Gnostic Gorgias Greek Hart Crane Hollander's idea image of voice interpretation irony Jewish Kabbalah Kabbalistic knowledge Lacan language light Lindsay's literary fantasy Lurianic Maskull meaning menorah misprision mode narcissism narcissistic nature negation negative Nietzsche origins Orpheus Orphic Orphism Pater perhaps philosophy Plato Pleasure Principle Plotinus pneuma poem poet poetic poetry pragmatic precursor primal prophet psyche psychic psychoanalysis reader religion repression rhetoric Romantic Sabbatai Zevi Scholem sense sexual song soul stance stanza Stevens Stevens's strong misreading Sublime synecdoche tally theory things tion tradition transcendence transumption trope truth turn uncanny unconscious Valentinian Valentinus vision Voyage to Arcturus Whitman Whitmanian word writing