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 120
... poetic will itself , the ego of the poet not as man , but of the poet as poet . Freud's triumph , in an aesthetic rather than a scientific sense , is that the reverse seems more true also . To discuss the poetic will without referring ...
... poetic will itself , the ego of the poet not as man , but of the poet as poet . Freud's triumph , in an aesthetic rather than a scientific sense , is that the reverse seems more true also . To discuss the poetic will without referring ...
Page 272
... poet beyond solitude , but Crane's life and work ended more in the spirit of his late poem Purgatorio , which pictures the poet in exile and apart , cut off from country and from friends . The contemporary poet John Ashbery is the ...
... poet beyond solitude , but Crane's life and work ended more in the spirit of his late poem Purgatorio , which pictures the poet in exile and apart , cut off from country and from friends . The contemporary poet John Ashbery is the ...
Page 308
... poet form the last room in his Stevensian ennui of apartments , and place something in an otherwise bare chamber of codas , other than an empty death ? Beyond belated- ness , the poetic grain spoiled and still ungathered , the poet is ...
... poet form the last room in his Stevensian ennui of apartments , and place something in an otherwise bare chamber of codas , other than an empty death ? Beyond belated- ness , the poetic grain spoiled and still ungathered , the poet is ...
Contents
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Revisionism and Critical Personality | 16 |
Gnosis Poetry Criticism | 52 |
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