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 12
... knowledge cannot be denied , In which nothing of knowledge fails , The luminous companion , the hand , The fortifying arm , the profound Response , the completely answering voice , That which is more than anything else The right within ...
... knowledge cannot be denied , In which nothing of knowledge fails , The luminous companion , the hand , The fortifying arm , the profound Response , the completely answering voice , That which is more than anything else The right within ...
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... knowledge is like bird and palm in being transmundane , “ beyond the last thought . " Poetic knowledge is re- vealed as a Gnosis , reliant upon evasion and not substitution as its idea of order . What is oldest in Stevens is called to ...
... knowledge is like bird and palm in being transmundane , “ beyond the last thought . " Poetic knowledge is re- vealed as a Gnosis , reliant upon evasion and not substitution as its idea of order . What is oldest in Stevens is called to ...
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... knowledge contains the explanation of its own origin , com- munication , and promised effect . " Jonas's language here is the language of the poetic Sublime , rather than of philosophy , and Jonas is centered even more firmly in ...
... knowledge contains the explanation of its own origin , com- munication , and promised effect . " Jonas's language here is the language of the poetic Sublime , rather than of philosophy , and Jonas is centered even more firmly in ...
Contents
Contents | 1 |
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