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 105
... narcissism turns upon catastrophe theory also . Freud turns to poetry , here to Heine , in order to illustrate the psychogenesis of Eros , but the lines he quotes actually state a psy- chogenesis of creativity rather than of love ...
... narcissism turns upon catastrophe theory also . Freud turns to poetry , here to Heine , in order to illustrate the psychogenesis of Eros , but the lines he quotes actually state a psy- chogenesis of creativity rather than of love ...
Page 127
... narcissism , as we ought never to forget , was the actual engine of change in Freud's theory . In the crisis - year of 1914 , Freud's theory at first seemed complete , but the vehement burst of inspiration in Rome , during " seventeen ...
... narcissism , as we ought never to forget , was the actual engine of change in Freud's theory . In the crisis - year of 1914 , Freud's theory at first seemed complete , but the vehement burst of inspiration in Rome , during " seventeen ...
Page 128
... narcissism . The Stevensian image of a child asleep in its own life is precisely applicable to Freud at this single moment . As in Whitman's Song of Myself , the distinction between autoeroticism and narcissism wavers and those two ...
... narcissism . The Stevensian image of a child asleep in its own life is precisely applicable to Freud at this single moment . As in Whitman's Song of Myself , the distinction between autoeroticism and narcissism wavers and those two ...
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Revisionism and Critical Personality | 16 |
Gnosis Poetry Criticism | 52 |
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