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 65
... belatedness , and Neoplatonism , despite itself , is in the same cultural stance of belatedness as is Gnosticism , Kabbalah or post - Miltonic poetry . I think that this shared problematic of be- latedness accounts for why Kabbalah was ...
... belatedness , and Neoplatonism , despite itself , is in the same cultural stance of belatedness as is Gnosticism , Kabbalah or post - Miltonic poetry . I think that this shared problematic of be- latedness accounts for why Kabbalah was ...
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... Belatedness is a highly dialectical notion , and so by no means wholly a negative one , even if its cutting edge or ... belatedness , and I like his putting Gnosticism first on his list , because we can call Gnosticism the essence of ...
... Belatedness is a highly dialectical notion , and so by no means wholly a negative one , even if its cutting edge or ... belatedness , and I like his putting Gnosticism first on his list , because we can call Gnosticism the essence of ...
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... belatedness . The contrast between Plotinus and the Alexandrian Gnostics is extraordinarily instructive just here . Plotinus joyously comes after Plato and the Ancients ; he presents himself as the true understander of their mysteries ...
... belatedness . The contrast between Plotinus and the Alexandrian Gnostics is extraordinarily instructive just here . Plotinus joyously comes after Plato and the Ancients ; he presents himself as the true understander of their mysteries ...
Contents
Contents | 1 |
Revisionism and Critical Personality | 16 |
Gnosis Poetry Criticism | 52 |
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