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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... Negative and negation , for what belated poetry and Gnosticism always shared and share is that they were and are two extreme manifestations of what his- torically has been termed negative theology . I reserve an account of negative ...
... Negative and negation , for what belated poetry and Gnosticism always shared and share is that they were and are two extreme manifestations of what his- torically has been termed negative theology . I reserve an account of negative ...
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... negative theology ever known , far surpassing the Chris- tian negative theology that was to stem from the Neoplatonic temporal vision of pseudo - Dionysius the Areopagite . A God who transcends the principles both of deity and goodness ...
... negative theology ever known , far surpassing the Chris- tian negative theology that was to stem from the Neoplatonic temporal vision of pseudo - Dionysius the Areopagite . A God who transcends the principles both of deity and goodness ...
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... Negative that perpetually might restore a Transcendental Self . The American critic here and now , in my judgment , needs to keep faith both with American poetry and the American Negative , which means one must not yield either to the ...
... Negative that perpetually might restore a Transcendental Self . The American critic here and now , in my judgment , needs to keep faith both with American poetry and the American Negative , which means one must not yield either to the ...
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