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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... dialectic of nega- tion , evasion , and extravagance in Valentinianism , and then sug- gest a version of the same dialectic in the history of poetry . Negation in Gnosis needs to be distinguished from negation in Hegelian philosophy and ...
... dialectic of nega- tion , evasion , and extravagance in Valentinianism , and then sug- gest a version of the same dialectic in the history of poetry . Negation in Gnosis needs to be distinguished from negation in Hegelian philosophy and ...
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... dialectic that informs the proudest and most moving passage in Beyond the Pleasure Principle , which comprises two triumphant sentences contra Jung that were added to the text in 1921 , in a Sublime afterthought : Our views have from ...
... dialectic that informs the proudest and most moving passage in Beyond the Pleasure Principle , which comprises two triumphant sentences contra Jung that were added to the text in 1921 , in a Sublime afterthought : Our views have from ...
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... dialectic of Gnosticism is a triad of negation , evasion and extravagance . Lurianic Kabbalah renders these as contraction , breaking - of - the - vessels and restitution . Fate , freedom , power is the Emersonian or American equivalent ...
... dialectic of Gnosticism is a triad of negation , evasion and extravagance . Lurianic Kabbalah renders these as contraction , breaking - of - the - vessels and restitution . Fate , freedom , power is the Emersonian or American equivalent ...
Contents
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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